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COVID-19 is no longer considered a high consequence infectious disease - Public Health England

Swedish approach could prove British models wrong - The Telegraph

Lockdown will kill more people than the virus says former Israeli Health Minister

How deadly is the coronavirus? It’s still far from clear - The Spectator

Charts showing COVID-19 death in proportion with flu deaths

Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional: week ending 20 March 2020 - Office for National Statistics

Peter Hitchens: There's Powerful Evidence This Great Panic is Foolish - Mail on Sunday

Supreme Court Judge Lord Sumption: Liberty and the rule of law are surely worth something even in the face of a pandemic - The Times

Boris Johnson urged to reconsider lockdown strategy by virus adviser

Neil Ferguson, the scientist who convinced Boris Johnson of UK coronavirus lockdown, criticised in past for flawed research - The Telegraph

Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless - US statistician Nate Silver

Was I wrong about coronavirus? - Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease? - The New York Times

Whilst deadly - the coronavirus danger ‘has been wildly exaggerated’ - Sky News Australia

Covid-19: four fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate - The BMJ

Strictly by the numbers, the coronavirus does not register as a dire global crisis - Former chief medical officer for Ontario

Peter Hitchens: In this lockdown, dissent is a moral duty

Covid outbreak as akin to a bad winter influenza epidemic - Professor John Sydney Oxford, Queen Mary, University of London, leading expert on influenza

Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having 'patchy record of modelling pandemics' - Mail Online

Significant levels of herd immunity in the UK - Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford

‘Polluted Air’ Could Be An Important Cause Of Wuhan Pneumonia - Eurasia Review

Oxford study: Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population - The Financial Times

Oxford University: COVID-19 may have been circulating in the UK since Jan 2020 and much of the population may already be immune - Yahoo News

Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? - Wall Street Journal

Lockdown measures in Italy should be reversed says President of the World Doctors Federation

Hysteria has forced the UK into lockdown, crashed the economy and will kill more than coronavirus - The Sun

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Is an ‘Almost Meaningless’ Metric - Bloomberg / Yahoo Finance

Covid19 no more dangerous than influenza says German immunologist and toxicologist, Professor Stefan Hockertz

Characteristics of COVID-19 positive deceased patients in Italy as of 17 March 2020 - 67/5000 - Epidemiology for Public Health Italy

Virologist Pablo Goldschmidt: deaths in Lombardy were due to poor health system, not virus

UK's youngest COVID-19 case was incorrectly reported - The Guardian

Coronavirus disease 2019: the harms of exaggerated information and non‐evidence‐based measures

Compulsory detention of children evisaged under new UK Coronavirus laws

Panic must end says former Chair of Medical Virology at the University of Zurich

All-cause mortality levels in European countries

Flu vaccine may increase the risk of coronavirus disease - Elsevier

Steroids could do more harm than good in treating coronavirus - ScienceDaily

Measures are not based on science says Swiss infectious disease specialist

Influenza can spread faster than COVID-19 - WHO

Conflicts of interest and pandemic flu - BMJ

Diamond Princess 48% test-positive cases remained completely symptom-free - National Institute of Infectious Diseases Japan

Other illness may have killed 99% of fatalities in Italy - Bloomberg

False positives for test screening of COVID19 infected individuals - NIH

Investigating influenza mortality in Italy (2013/14–2016/17 seasons)

The COVID19: We need to prepare, not overreact

German mortality rate will not be significantly higher compared to other years

Banning public gatherings is idiotic says Sweden's former state epidemiologist

Where is Japan's coronavirus explosion? - Japan Times

Covid 19—many questions, no clear answers - Tom Jefferson - BMJ

All-cause mortality report for England and Wales - Public Health England

Is the coronavirus pandemic a fiasco in the making?

Swedish hostpitals normal despite pursuing liberal strategy

9 out of 10 deaths in Lombardy were not hospitalized for COVID-19

Studies show 6% death rates from common cold in risk groups - NIH