“Exclusive: World leaders call for pandemic treaty” – Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel have proposed a global accord like that forged after the Second World War to deal with future pandemics, says the Telegraph in an exclusive. The world leaders call the pandemic “a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe”. But if the reaction of different states to future pandemics has to be coordinated and complementary, won’t that make it difficult for any of the signatories of this accord to resist if the majority of countries decide to lock down?
“Why the travel ban must be lifted” – “Variants will reach us, whether or not your holiday is prohibited,” writes Professor David Livermore in Spiked. Forty Conservative MPs agree with him
“Fetal Tissue Vaccines: 12 Faulty Assumptions” – A summary of issues and misconceptions about the use of aborted fetal tissue in vaccines from a Christian perspective by Thomas Seidler
“Reconciling estimates of global spread and infection fatality rates of COVID‐19” – A new paper by Professor John Ioannidis says, “Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests average global IFR of ~0.15% and ~1.5‐2.0 billion infections by February 2021 with substantial differences in IFR and in infection spread across continents, countries, and locations.”
“The vaccine connection to death on the rock” – Writing for the Conservative Woman, Neville Hodgkinson examines Gibraltar’s high Covid death rate and considers if it has something to tell us about the vaccines
“Government policies must catch up with latest data on COVID-19” – Original Covid fatality predictions overshot the mark, write Simon Thornley and Ananish Chaudhuri at New Zealand’s Covid Plan B. We need to return to the “foundations of science which means a sober assessment of reality over failed forecasts”
“WHO COVID-19 origins report says lab leak ‘extremely unlikely’” – The World Health Organisation whitewash report is supporting the Chinese Communist Party’s version of history, according to the Telegraph – the virus passed from bats to humans via an “intermediate animal host”
“WHO Report Into COVID-19 Origins Leaves Key Questions Unanswered” – The publication of the WHO report will not be the end of the matter, says the Wall Street Journal, given that the data is “insufficient to answer the critical questions of when, where and how the virus began spreading”
“Boris Johnson needs to “break the doom loop” of lockdown” – Steve Baker MP, Deputy Chair of the Covid Recovery Group, urged Boris to accelerate the reopening on talkRADIO yesterday. For chapter and verse on what the data is telling us, see this thread by Ed Conway on Twitter
Steve Baker MP, Coronavirus Recovery Group deputy chairman: Boris Johnson needs to "break the doom loop" of lockdown.
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