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for example is believed to represent good evidence of the key knowledge decision makers in democracies should have considered in their public health and health care resilience plans. Its comments on vaccination were disregarded or distorted by some anti vaccination groups to their ends. The failure
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of politicians to understand or promote such understanding of the evidence based whole system changes needed to mitigate a post pandemic winter pressure or nursing resource issue as such changes would not deliver on short term goals could be noted. might have similar resonance to some.
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it would have been quite impossible personally to maintain both effective editorial oversight of GANFYD during this evolving crisis and the more important for NHS patients dissemination of accurate and timely information through official NHS
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decided to suspend operations and return operating expenses donations. In the context of the later COVID-19 pandemic a former editor still involved in accurate health care information dissemination noted that "
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