- “What Covid? UK’s daily hospital admissions and deaths fall again” – Daily U.K. Health Security Agency data show another 11,076 people tested positive over the last 24 hours, down by a tenth in a week, with hospitalisations down over a quarter to 926, the Mail reports.
- “How Sweden’s Covid gamble paid off: Scandinavian nation has suffered fewer deaths in pandemic than majority of Europe – despite defying scientific advice by refusing to impose strict lockdowns” – Sweden, which became an international outlier when it refused to shut down society to limit the virus’s spread, logged a lower death rate than many European nations that imposed strict curbs, reports the Mail – though be warned the story is based on the highly dubious WHO modelled mortality estimates.
- “Choice Quotes from Bill Gates’s New Book” – Jeffrey Tucker reviews the billionaire’s pandemic tome for the Brownstone Institute.
- “First ever double-blind randomised trial of Vit D for the prevention of Covid infections” – HART reports promising results and says we should be looking at prevention as well as cure.
- “Meddling with modelling” – HART criticises the Canadian modelling paper that claims the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated as “an amoral, unethical and utterly transparent attempt to use pseudoscientific modelling to fabricate a false narrative”.
- “Xi Jinping sends warning to anyone who questions China’s Zero-Covid policy” – China’s top leader has issued the strongest warning yet to anyone who questions the country’s Zero-Covid policy, as stringent, frequent lockdowns fuel public discontent and deal a devastating blow to the Chinese economy, reports CNN.
- “Why the sneering, vaccine-mad Telegraph has lost this reader” – Dr. Frank Palmer on TCW Defending Freedom has had enough of being insulted and smeared by the uncritical pro-vaxxers at the Telegraph.
- “After Putin’s war in Ukraine, another La Niña drought is the last straw for global food supply” – Putin’s imperial misadventure has probably left several hundred million people facing chronic malnutrition, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
- “Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against HHS over Race-Based Medical Care” – A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against the Department of Health and Human Services for its push to “inject race-based decision making into our health care system”, including offering financial incentives to health care providers who implement critical race theory-based policies at their practices, such as racial prioritisation for receiving medical help, reports Breitbart News.
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