News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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The question of early spread of COVID-19 continues to fascinate, not least because of what it implies for the futility of interventions. So, when exactly did the virus first appear in Italy?
When did the coronavirus first appear? The evidence from testing and sequencing of stored samples suggests it emerged some time between July and November 2019 and circulated silently across the globe during that winter.
The obsession with antibodies has let us down badly because there's more to the immune system than antibodies, not all antibodies protect well against respiratory infection, and some antibodies cause auto-immune attacks.
Imperial College London scared the world into locking down with death projections based on fatality estimates that the latest data suggest are up to 20 times higher than the reality.
Children with antibodies had increased infection risk against Omicron, a study in JAMA has found. Protection came instead from T cells, which cut infection risk dramatically.
COVID-19 is much less deadly in the non-elderly population than previously thought, a major new study of antibody prevalence surveys by Professor John Ioannidis has concluded.
There is compelling evidence of Americans ill in 2019 with COVID-19. Yet public health officials have ignored all efforts to notify them of these cases and still claim the first US case was January 20th 2020. Why?
Antibodies in Italian blood samples from September 2019 – What is the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated earlier than December 2019 in Wuhan, and what are the implications for our understanding of the pandemic?
A group of experts has delved into the Pfizer trial documents released following a U.S. court order and discovered that according to Pfizer's own antibody data the vaccine efficacy in the trial was as low as zero.
A pre-print study by US Government researchers shows vaccinated people produce a less comprehensive immune system response following SARS-CoV-2 infection than unvaccinated people.
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