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Government not advised to ban second most used drug among 16-24 year olds

Ministers were reported to be planning to ban the sale and possession as part of a bid to tackle antisocial behaviour

Wales Online

Report stops short of recommending laughing gas ban

The independent Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) was asked by the Home Office in 2021 to review the harms of nitrous oxide.

The Independent UK

The big idea: should governments run more experiments?

We’re used to randomised trials in medicine. Why not apply the same rigour to policy?

The Guardian - UK

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Commentary: California gave up on mandating COVID vaccines for schoolchildren. Here’s why that’s wise

A California Supreme Court decision last month reaffirmed that individual school districts lack the authority to require students to be vaccinated against COVID-19. A few weeks before that, officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration confirmed that they had abandoned plans to require COVID-19 vaccination of schoolchildren, and legislation to similar…

Los Angeles Times

Make vapes a pharmacy-only drug, say New Zealand health groups

Smoking rates have plummeted but vaping is soaring among younger people, sparking calls to restrict access

The Guardian - AU

Matt Hancock was ‘like a headless chicken’, says former vaccines chief

Dr Clive Dix hit out at the former health secretary in a Telegraph article.

The Independent UK

Thailand spent B444bn in 3 years to fight pandemic

Thailand spent a total of 444 billion baht ($12.8 billion) on public health during the three years of the pandemic to contain the spread of Covid-19 and vaccinate its population, according to the Ministry of Public Health.

Bangkok Post

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California to alter COVID rules in health care settings: Masks and vaccinations not required

LOS ANGELES — With the COVID-19 state of emergency a thing of the past, California health officials on Friday unveiled plans to relax guidance on masking in high-risk settings and to end vaccination requirements for health care workers.

Los Angeles Times

WHO Still Working to Identify the Origins of COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO) is still working to identify the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its director general said on Friday, after a US agency was reported to have assessed the pandemic had likely been caused by a Chinese laboratory leak. "I have written to and spoken with high-level…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Latest rise in UK Covid-19 infections may be slowing

The Omicron variant BA.2.75 now accounts for more than three quarters of infections.

The Independent UK

FBI director believes lab leak theory

The director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, fanned the flames of speculation that blame the Chinese government

Salon

Gran allowed drug dealer boyfriend to store cocaine in the fridge

Rachel Williams, 38, allowed her house in Maesteg, Bridgend, to be used to store cocaine and amphetamine by her partner Gareth Boast, 43.

Wales Online

How an Adelaide anti-vaccination protest became a Russian propaganda opportunity

Anti-vaccination protesters say an event held in Adelaide was "hijacked" by pro-Russia demonstrators and misrepresented by Russian news websites — turning a "day of remembrance" for people they say have been injured by COVID-19 vaccines into "a rally in support of Russia".

ABC News

Push to overcome vaccine delays

Authorities are working to speed up the rollout of childhood immunisation programmes that have been delayed by Covid-19 for three years.

Bangkok Post

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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID lab leak theory seriously

Citing a classified intelligence report provided to members of Congress, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Energy Department has now concluded with “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely began after an unintentional laboratory leak in China.

Tribune News Service

An at-home COVID-19 and flu test gets FDA emergency use authorization

The Food and Drug Administration has approved an at-home test that can detect and discern between COVID-19 infection and two strains of the flu, Influenza A and B, continuing the shift from clinical to home-diagnostic care that blossomed during the height of the pandemic.

Wales Online

Final moments of first UK child to die of Covid described at inquest

A consultant says it was 'like a wartime experience' but Ismail suffered no pain or fear

The New Daily

Victoria tips $10m into mRNA vaccine workforce training

Victoria is pouring $10 million into training Australia's vaccine workforce, ahead of the southern hemisphere's first mRNA production site opening in 2024.

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The Loop: 'Havana syndrome' not aliens nor foreign attack, TikTok introduces time limits, and 'no decisions' on Australia post — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is the Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happened.

ABC News

Australian schools are tackling vaping by installing detectors in bathrooms. But how do they work?

Australian schools are installing vape detectors in bathrooms to deter students from using the harmful products, but just how effective are the devices?

Evening Standard

Breathing tube error may have contributed to death of first child Covid victim, inquest told

Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, 13, died of acute respiratory distress syndrome after contracting disease in March 2020

Al Jazeera

Reports on COVID origin reignite conspiracy theories about virus

FBI director, US Department of Energy say virus originated in a lab, but other US officials say there’s no consensus.

Daily Mirror

First UK child to die with Covid may have died after 'horrendous oversight by doctors'

London teenager Ismail Mohammed died a week after lockdown at King's College Hospital - and an inquest has now heard the positioning of a tube in his throat may have contributed to his death

The Guardian - UK

Failure to step up Covid testing capacity in England left care homes exposed

While tests existed, scientists could not track size of outbreak, leaving vulnerable people unprotected

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: FBI director endorses Covid lab leak theory

Comments fuel divide within US intelligence community on origins. Plus, Finland erects Russia border fence

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