News Round-Up
4 February 2023
by Will Jones
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Check out our freshly updated list of all 195 countries in the world and what their current requirements are for visitors including vaccination, testing and quarantine requirements.
Check out our up-to-date list of all 195 countries in the world and what their current requirements are for visitors including vaccination, testing and quarantine requirements.
Spain, Croatia and even Italy have ended their Covid-era travel restrictions, but the USA is an international outlier in continuing to require visitors to be vaccinated, despite no evidence this is reducing spread.
A new report from the Economist and academic publisher Elsevier targets 'misinformation' from scientists about Covid and climate change, but predictably fails to define misinformation or defend free scientific enquiry.
Is it too much to expect that someone in a position of authority will announce that the alleged threat from monkeypox is over, asks Dr Roger Watson.
Dr Roger Watson writes that he counts among his friends several 'virus sceptics' and he knows they won’t accept any evidence to the contrary – but they should not go unchallenged.
Dr Roger Watson is concerned that a new move by academic publishing standards committee COPE is intended to weaponise publication ethics to ban dissenting academics from publishing their research.
Vestiges of the Covid regime persist everywhere, either in relation to flying or within countries. The UK is a welcome outlier with respect to the absence of Covid regulations.
It was inevitable that the WHO would up the pandemic ante regarding monkeypox, despite there being only five deaths and all of them in Africa, where the disease is endemic. But vaccines for children are on their way.
Italy, the country where the Western lockdown panic began, is still addicted to its masks and shows depressingly little interest in exploring what happened elsewhere to find out if it over-reacted.
Hong Kong has sent traditional Chinese medicine to three million residents telling them it works against COVID-19. But the few Chinese studies claiming efficacy are of very poor standard.
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