“Covid vaccines for children should not get emergency use authorisation” – “One might hope to achieve population level benefits with broader child vaccination for COVID-19,” write Wesley Pegden, Vinay Prasad, and Stefan Baral in an editorial for the BMJ. “But this is inconsistent with the conditions for emergency use authorisation”
“How can we check vaccine safety under this shambolic system?” – Sally Beck argues in the Conservative Woman that the Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s Yellow Card System for reporting and analysing adverse reactions to the vaccines is not fit for purpose
“A doctor’s plea to doctors: Remember our Hippocratic Oath” – The Conservative Woman highlight’s Dr Tess Lawrie’s address at last week’s conference on the use of ivermectin as a prophylactic and treatment for COVID-19. It was hosted by BIRD, the British Ivermectin Recommendation Development organisation
“The Disappearance of Dissent” – Alistair Cavendish analyses the tactics of the media-political complex when it came to April’s anti-lockdown protests
“Game, set and mask” – “It appears that Boris Johnson may ask for masks in the classroom to be scrapped on Monday 10th May,” writes Roger Watson at the Unity News Network. There was only ever one correct course of action and that was never to have forced children to wear face masks in the first place
“Why didn’t our media report this American good sense?” – Florida has passed legislation to fine any business or school $5,000 if it requires proof of vaccination from its customers or pupils, writes Kathy Gyngell in the Conservative Woman. But the UK media “completely ignored it”
“SAGE lockdown advice ignores the human condition” – Sean Walsh argues in Conservatives Global that Susan Michie’s membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain is not as concerning as her professional vocation as a “behavioural psychologist”
“Our Current Predicament #43” – The first episode of Our Current Predicament in its new home at Bournbrook Magazine sees S.D. Wickett and Bob Lollard discuss lockdown’s impact on people as social beings
“Eurovision’s noisy fans are back despite Dutch pandemic” – Eurovision 2021 is set to go ahead, the BBC reports. Audiences will be capped at 3,500 and all visitors will have to show a negative test result that’s no more than 24 hours old
“Jens Spahn: Germany’s third COVID wave appears to be ‘broken’” – Germany’s Health Minister is upbeat about the country’s ‘third wave’, according to Deutsche Welle. But he warns that a hasty retraction of recently imposed curbs “would only help the virus”
“To Defend Public Health, We Need More Than Lockdowns” – The “left’s acceptance of lockdowns has been a serious miscalculation” argues Greek journalist Panagiotis Sotiris in an interview in Jacobin. “Far from offering a break with neoliberalism, the policy has done quite the opposite”
“WHO approves China’s Sinopharm vaccine for emergency use” – The World Health Organisation has given its approval to the Sinopharm jab, meaning it can be distributed as part of Covax, the UN programme to send jabs to the developing world, euronews reports
You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.