“Parents following the science” – Following recent announcements about COVID-19 vaccine trials on children and infants, this new website set up by a group of parents and medical professionals seeks to “offer balance to the hasty and ill-considered approach that’s being taken”
“Call for Evidence – COVID-19 Vaccine Certification” – A consultation being run by a parliamentary committee set up to consider “potential ethical, legal and operational issues and the efficacy and appropriateness of a certificate system”. Do contribute by the deadline, May 3rd
“Covid – the cock-ups and the cover-ups” – Neville Hodgkinson in the Conservative Woman sets out his theory about the origins of the pandemic: that a genetically engineered virus, produced as part of an international effort to counter the threat of a pandemic, accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
“The tearoom brewing hope and defiance” – Paul Stilwell in the Conservative Woman provides an update on the The Mustard Seed, the Christian tearoom in Gedling, which defied the lockdown
“Legend of Banter” – The Irreverend clergy brought the American commentator Esther O’Reilly on to the show this week to find out if everyone in the U.S. is as fed up with Fauci as they are here with Whitty
“Coincidence’ – What does the data say” – In the latest Pandemic Podcast, Dan Astin Gregory looks at the data, patterns and correlations that have followed the vaccine rollout
“Ontario gives police sweeping powers as Covid crisis spirals out of control” – Ontario is going for the ultra hard lockdown approach, the Guardian reports, with police empowered to stop drivers or pedestrians and ask for their address and their reason for being out, and issue fines of up to $C750 (£430)
“US Braces for One-Year COVID-19 Booster Shots; Pfizer Chief Sees Need” – David Kessler, Chief Science Officer for President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force has told a congressional committee that people will likely need a third dose of the two-dose vaccine, and maybe annual shots, Newsmax reports
“Where’s Dr. Fauci As Another Corona-Myth Dies?” – US Centres for Disease Control recently announced that, contrary to what was first thought, the chance of contracting SARS-CoV-2 off the surface of an inanimate object is about 1 in 10,000. This illustrates, writes John Tammy at AIER, how the ‘deniers’ of received wisdom provide important information that ‘believers’ can not
“Magufuli’s Covid response saved thousands of lives” – The President of Tanzania was mocked in the West for rejecting lockdowns, but according to ex-World Health Organisation scientist Dr David Bell, writing in News Africa, he is viewed by many in the scientific community as a life-saver
“Food prices soar in West Africa amid conflicts and COVID, WFP says” – According to the World Food Programme, food prices in West Africa have jumped more than 30% since last year to their highest levels in nearly a decade due to lockdowns and a decline in cereal production, Reuters reports
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