News Round-Up
13 July 2025
by Will Jones
Emergency Exit at English Heritage
12 July 2025
by Mike Wells
Reported infections are heading up again in the UK, this time associated with Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants. These were harmless in South Africa, but oddly deadly in much more vaccinated Portugal. What will happen here?
The U.S. Government will today announce the end from Sunday of the requirement for people entering the country to test negative for COVID-19. No word, however, on ending the ban on the unvaccinated.
The Covid vaccines appear to be responsible for the emergence of a new, fast-acting form of the deadly 'mad cow' neurodegenerative condition Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a study by a leading virologist has found.
A lesser known reason for the high price of gasoline is lack of refining capacity. And restoring that takes time. So even if oil production rises, the price at the pump is unlikely to fall dramatically any time soon.
Dramatic new findings from two climate science professors suggest that an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere follows a rise in temperature rather than coming before it and causing it.
Laboratory results in 2020 showed fish liver oil destroyed 99.9% of SARS-CoV-2 within 10 minutes. Why then was the funding for this promising research withdrawn without explanation?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
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