“A life-threatening allergy to the vaccine? No, we won’t exempt you!” – Sue Atkinson in TCW is terrified of a repeat experience of the anaphylaxis she had from a previous vaccination, but was shocked when her GP phoned to say that she was not eligible for an NHS exemption.
“Are South Asians more susceptible to Covid?” – Blacks and South Asians living in Britain have higher rates of death from Covid than the white majority. These disparities received a lot of attention at the start of the pandemic, but have since garnered much less interest, writes Noah Carl in his latest Substack post.
“Fact check: are Sadiq Khan’s vaccination claims right?” – The Spectator takes Sadiq Khan to task for his plainly inaccurate claim (still not removed by Twitter) that: “At all ages – the vast, vast majority of people hospitalised with Covid have not yet been vaccinated.”
“NHS workers took average of 14 DAYS off sick every year BEFORE Covid” – Health service data shows there were 17.7million days of leave taken between April 2018 and March 2019 – the equivalent of around 14 days per worker, mainly for mental health problems, reports the Mail.
“4th Covid vaccine dose boosts antibodies 5-fold, Israeli study shows” – Israeli study on a fourth Covid jab has found it boosted antibody levels five-fold in a trial on medical staff. But this is lower than the rise seen in studies on the impact of the third Covid jab, reports the Mail.
“EU: Natural Gas and Nuclear are now Green Energy” – The long predicted collapse of the EU renewable energy push has finally arrived, as the EU has effectively just admitted renewable energy does not work, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That.
“The Colston verdict is the triumph of values, not law” – “It seems that there is a defence to any charge of criminal damage if you ‘genuinely believe the owner consents to you doing the damage’. And it turns out that how genuine you are is a question for a jury,” writes Steven Barrett in the Spectator.
“Michael Wolff on Random House’s Cancellation of Norman Mailer” – The dropping of a book of Mailer’s essays set for 2023 over an essay called “White Negro” in order to avoid controversy is another sign of how the literary consumer loses out in the culture wars, argues Wolff in the Ankler.
Preprint from Kaiser Permanente: "The true incidence of myopericarditis is markedly higher than the incidence reported to US advisory committees" Males 12-17, 377 cases per 1M 2nd doses –> 1:2652 Males 18-24, 537 cases per 1M 2nd doses –>1:1862https://t.co/sATM9BMZFUpic.twitter.com/WflS9SaGOV
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