“Has Omicron peaked in London?” – The present best-case scenario is that Omicron peaks early in the new year and then falls just as fast as it did in South Africa, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
“We’re nowhere near learning to live with Covid” – Getting back to normal means overhauling Test and Trace and rethinking mandatory isolation, writes MP and former Public Health Minister Steve Brine in the Telegraph.
“The Pandemic Endgame” – An international update from the ‘Swiss Doctor’, including the return of flu (with Sweden experiencing its strongest flu wave in a decade), California’s Covid mortality overtaking Florida’s, and Australia’s sky-rocketing Omicron outbreak.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account is suspended” – This is the fifth strike for Greene, who was last suspended in August for saying that vaccines were ‘failing’ to reduce the spread of COVID and that the FDA shouldn’t have approved them, reports the Daily Mail.
“We have become too reliant on foreign doctors” – Poaching doctors from low income countries is both immoral and unethical, argues Consultant Surgeon J Meirion Thomas in the Telegraph.
“Many Climate Ambitions Will End With 2021” – In the U.K., Germany and France, leaders walk back as their plans’ exorbitant price tag becomes clear, writes Joseph C. Sternberg in the Wall Street Journal.
“David Amess and the deafening silence on Islamism” – This year we learned that even the killing of an MP is not enough to force the political class to confront Islamist terror, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
“Guardian pulls poll after JK Rowling wins” – The Guardian has pulled entries to its online ‘Person of the Year’ competition after the Harry Potter author proved to be the runaway favourite from supporters writing in to nominate her name, the Spectator reports.
“Kulldorff and Bhattacharya Respond: The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health” – Great Barrington Declaration authors Professor Martin Kulldorff and Professor Jay Bhattacharya respond in the Epoch Times to the revelations that U.S. Government scientists Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins conspired to demolish the Declaration and smear its authors as “fringe epidemiologists”.
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