News Round-Up
10 June 2026
by Toby Young
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by Nick Dixon
For the public health sceptic, monkeypox is the gift that keeps on giving, says Prof Roger Watson. Seemingly unhappy with having fallen out of the spotlight, the virus is now copying straight from the COVID-19 playbook.
'Long Covid' may be real, or it might just be a handy umbrella for anything that leaves you tired. Dr Roger Watson tracks how the hype, the symptoms and the cash made it a pandemic celebrity.
Scientists are at last uncovering the links between ME (aka Chronic Fatigue), Long Covid and Long Vaccine. It's a breakthrough that promises treatments that target the underlying cause, says Patrick Ussher.
Violet Affleck, the daughter of Hollywood stars Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, was at the UN on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
With walking sticks on the rise among teenage girls diagnosed with POTS, many observers are dismissing it as the latest social contagion among unhappy young people. Jane Walkington disagrees.
Scientists from Yale have discovered a syndrome linked to the mRNA Covid vaccines that damages the immune system and causes chronic fatigue with spike protein persisting in the blood for up to two years.
Psychological therapy may be the only treatment to successfully cure lingering 'Long Covid' symptoms, landmark new research in the BMJ has suggested.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's 18 year-old daughter has demanded the imposition of "mask mandates" in medical facilities and called for an end to all "mask bans" in a plea to the governing body for Los Angeles County.
Long Covid is no different from the after-effects of viruses like flu and people should stop using the term, health experts have said.
Workers are putting in fewer hours than before the pandemic around the world as the number of sick days surge, according to a new global report.