News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Up to half of excess deaths in American nursing homes were due to the impact of lockdowns and mitigation measures on frail residents rather than the virus, according to new analysis.
We are finally entering a phase of Covid 'narrative collapse', says Oxford epidemiologist Prof Sunetra Gupta. However, many are still refusing to recognise that the problem wasn't just school closures; it was lockdown.
South Korea saw a large spike in excess mortality even after 90% of over 80s were double-vaccinated. Yet Hong Kong saw an even greater spike. And there, less than 30% of over 80s were double-vaccinated.
Excess mortality is negatively related to elderly vaccination in both Europe and the U.S. Focussed protection culminating in voluntary vaccination of high-risk groups was the right strategy, argues Noah Carl.
Initially we were told that we would only vaccinate the vulnerable. We then proceeded to vaccinate everyone. Now we’re back to only vaccinating the over-50s, and only a minority of 50-59 year-olds are taking it up.
Dr Alan Mordue, a retired Consultant in Public Health Medicine, writes for the Daily Sceptic of his alarm that important principles of public health have been jettisoned in the pandemic.
In an interview last week, Neil Ferguson said that Britain's high infection rate had had the "upside of boosting population immunity". Whether he realised it or not, Ferguson was making the case for focused protection.
Despite experiencing a moderately high infection rate in the winter, Denmark has had only 1% excess mortality since the pandemic began. This suggests that some degree of focused protection can be achieved.
The BMJ has published a clumsy and very belated hit piece against the Great Barrington Declaration, which relies on ad hominem, guilt by association and appeals to authority. Read this point-by-point response.
A study published earlier this year found that 30% of severe COVID cases were linked to a recent hospital visit. Now researchers have shown that air filtration/UV light can remove the virus from hospital wards.
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