Jamie Dettmer ist Meinungsredakteur bei POLITICO Europe.
Die meiste Zeit des vergangenen Jahres waren die Zentralbanker des Westens davon überzeugt, dass Preisspitzen vorübergehend und beherrschbar seien. Sie glaubten, dass die steigende Inflation nachlassen würde, sobald die pandemiebedingten Unterbrechungen der Lieferkette und der Arbeitskräftemangel ein Ende fanden.
Die Preiserhöhungen für Waren, Mieten, Lebensmittel und Energie seien einmalig, so die Argumentation. Einfach die Folgen von Volkswirtschaften, die darum kämpfen, sich von dem induzierten Koma der COVID-19-Sperren und -Beschränkungen zu erholen. Aber jetzt,
A former NATO official has said she is ‘sceptical’ that Russian forces will ‘gain much success’ from an expected brutal onslaught of Kyiv, as Ukrainians warned Putin to prepare for his own Stalingrad in the capital.
Russian armoured vehicles are still slowly advancing on the city’s northeast after being stalled for days, and a military airfield south of the city in Vasylkiv has been hit by missiles, destroying the runway, a fuel depot and an ammunition store.
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Experts today accused the British media of ‘maintaining pandemic fear’ by failing to cover a new report which found lockdowns had virtually no impact on Covid deaths in the UK, US and Europe.
A review by three economists from Johns Hopkins University in the US, Lund University in Sweden and the Danish think-tank the Center for Political Studies, found lockdowns only reduced Covid mortality by 0.2 per cent in 2020.
MailOnline was just one of three major British media outlets
Lateral flow tests may be less effective at detecting Omicron even when people are at their most infectious, a US real-world study has found.
Researchers at the US Covid Sports and Society Workgroup examined lateral flow and PCR tests results from 30 people working in offices where there had been an Omicron outbreak in December.
It took an average of three days longer for people to test positive on a lateral flow test — which give results in as little
