Since Covid, journalists have picked up an unhealthy new pastime, says Eugyppius: feverishly reporting on the incidence of normal winter viruses as though they are something alarming when they are no such thing.
After a few months of the Hallett pantomime, it's quite clear that the Covid Inquiry is not about evidence-based policy. Time to put it out of its misery, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
The winter death toll last year in Scotland was the worst in 30 years, the BBC reports. What, worse than during the 'pandemic'? And didn't the vaccines stop everyone dying? These questions are passed over, of course.
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".
