News Round-Up
15 April 2025
by Toby Young
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Patrick Vallance branded Chris Whitty a lockdown 'delayer', but he seems to have forgotten that before the first lockdown he was himself a champion of herd immunity and avoiding "hard suppression".
A new research paper in the Lancet says natural immunity to COVID-19 following an infection is "as good as vaccines" at preventing serious illness from exposure to the virus.
Stanford epidemiologist and Great Barrington Declaration legend Jay Bhattacharya has met with Elon Musk to discover why his 'dangerous' opposition to the COVID-19 lockdowns led to him being blacklisted by 'Twitter 1.0'.
A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?
Britain didn't need Covid booster jabs as they only last 70 days, top virus expert Sir John Bell has said, as he backed natural immunity and said letting the virus circulate is "the best way to protect the population".
With a non-sterilising vaccine like the Covid ones, high viral load in the vaccinated helps drive vaccine-escape variants – a fact that should have been factored into the vaccination programmes but wasn't.
Why have our authorities never apologised to all those who took the experimental vaccines only ‘to protect others’ by achieving a herd immunity that never came?
A new study from Qatar shows that Omicron infection provides strong protection against reinfection (80%). Those like Imperial's Prof Danny Altmann who have been scaring people by telling them otherwise are wrong.
Danny Altmann, Professor of Immunology at Imperial, writes that rather than sliding into a comfortable relationship with Covid, it's "more like being trapped on a rollercoaster in a horror film". But is this true?
Vaccine passports for domestic purposes are being axed in New Zealand, with mandates being removed in almost all industries, but not health and social care. Baby steps from the Toothy Tyrant.
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