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The Elephant in the Womb

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  The Elephant in the Womb It's altogether more more inspiring than the one in the room! (Part One) The ā€˜covid crisisā€™ seems at last to be receding in the rear-view mirror. Much of the world has breathed a sigh of relief and declared itself unwilling to hear any more about the subject which tormented us for three long years. There is however, an elephant in the room. (Weā€™ll come to the one in the womb in just a moment, for it is very much more positive and hopeful). The elephant in the room, with apologies to those who have ā€˜had enoughā€™, is big and grey and unavoidable: It ainā€™t over.  The reasons that it ainā€™t over are numerous: Disturbingly, excess deaths in countries around the world remain very high - in some countries higher than they were at the height of the pandemic, 1  and nobody is quite sure why. There continue to be disturbing reports 2  about  rising levels of miscarriage and infant death, as well as falling fertility rates - and the cause of those ...