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Leading scientists are calling on the Government to remove all coronavirus restrictions and allow people to ‘take back control of their own lives’ when the ‘roadmap’ to freedom ends in June.
With real-world data showing vaccines reduce the risk of death by 98 per cent and hospitalisations by more than 80 per cent, the experts say Covid-19 is being turned into a ‘mild’ disease in Britain, akin to the flu.
In an open letter to The Mail on Sunday, they criticise ‘confused and contradictory’ messages from Ministers and scientific advisers about the virus, which they say are exaggerating the real threat.
The signatories of the letter include Carl Heneghan - Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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A new 10-year road map aims to tackle the neglected diseases that still affect more than 1.7 billion people around the world
Professor Gail Davey is president of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and professor of Epidemiology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
In a world focused on stopping COVID-19, I’ve watched as many of the diseases already largely ignored by governments and scientists have been pushed further into the shadows. This is despite the fact that they kill, disable, disfigure and debilitate hundreds of millions of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Skin cancer has increased significantly in the last four decades
Incidence rates of skin cancer (cutaneous malignant melanoma) have increased more than 550% in males and 250% in females since the early 1980s in England - according to a new study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS).
Published in the new Lancet journal,
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Lancet Regional Health - Europe, the study analyzed data on more than 265,000 individuals diagnosed with skin cancer in England over the 38-year period, 1981-2018.
Skin cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the UK, with about 16,200 new cases each year.
Excessive exposure to UV radiation from the sun (or sunlight) is the main environmental risk factor for developing skin cancer. It is estimated that about 86% of all skin cancers in the UK are attributable to excessive exposure to sunlight. Exposure to artificial sources of UV radiation from indoor tanning beds/lamps is the second most important cause of skin cancer.
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