News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
Once a highly trusted source of information, now the BBC "confuses the public, passes on facile information and guesswork and uses incorrect expressions that debase science", says Dr. Tom Jefferson.
It’s that time of the year when the first murmurings of winter crisis emerge in the NHS and politicians scramble to 'do something'. But will this year's 'Winter Plan' be any better than those before it?
In February 2020, a few days after being released from his quarantine "imprisonment", Germany's first Covid patient told an interviewer: "I’m doing great. I was never in fact doing poorly."
Eugyppius takes a closer look at the surveillance data that show flu was suppressed by Covid, the viral interference phenomenon that likely explains it, and why it means lockdowns are a really bad idea.
Faced with a 'severe' RSV outbreak and a possible imminent rise in flu cases, Chile has decided that all schoolchildren above the age of five must return to wearing a mask.
Flu largely disappeared during 2020 and 2021, giving rise to ideas among some sceptics that it was being missed and wrongly classified as Covid. However, influenza surveillance data confirm that it really did vanish.
Chinese officials want to bring in lockdowns to combat the flu, as the Washington Post argues that U.S. Covid restrictions likely saved "an incalculable number of lives".
A bird flu strain that killed a schoolgirl in Cambodia has evolved to better infect human cells, scientists claim – but there is no human-to-human transmission and it's "unlikely to cause a major outbreak".
Deaths in England and Wales were a massive 20% above the 5-year average in the week ending Dec 23rd – that's 2,493 deaths, with just 308 from Covid, giving 29,880 excess non-Covid deaths since April. What's going on?
Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
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