News Round-Up
6 January 2025
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5 January 2025
A study finally looks at all-cause deaths by vaccination status. The results are incredible, that is to say, not credible: a 71% cut in total deaths from a fourth dose, even though Covid deaths are just 8% of the total.
It's unclear exactly how many casualties Russia has suffered in Ukraine. But a reasonable estimate is about 78,000 (dead plus wounded), which would equate to more than one third of its initial strength.
An elderly widow was forced to certify her husband’s death via Zoom after a GP said they “don’t come out any more” – despite this being contrary to official requirements.
There have been 9,422 excess deaths registered in England and Wales from causes other than COVID-19 in the last 11 weeks, the latest official data show. Is the Government going to investigate why?
A recent Danish study has caused excitement by suggesting the AZ and J&J vaccines reduce non-Covid mortality including heart-related deaths. But this is very unlikely to be true.
A preprint study in the Lancet has analysed the mortality data from the Covid vaccine trials and found that mRNA vaccines increase the risk of heart-related deaths by up to 50%.
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
Deaths in England and Wales were 7.8% below the five-year average for the week ending January 7th, ONS data show, in the latest sign that the pandemic is coming to an end.
The Government has not released key details relating to the U.K.'s first recorded Omicron fatality, and has not even said whether Covid was actually the leading cause of death.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor discusses what we know so far about the Omicron Covid variant and sees little evidence of increased pressure on the NHS to date.
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