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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A fourth dose of Covid mRNA vaccine is not effective against Omicron infection, preliminary research from Israel has shown – as the Omicron surge hits ICUs.
The Wellcome Trust has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”, as Israeli Prof Ehud Qimron slams the lockdown consensus as a failure based on myths and lies.
A second large Israeli study has found that natural immunity provides better protection against infection than the Pfizer vaccine. Adjusting for several factors, infections were six times higher among the vaccinated.
A recent CDC study found that non-Covid death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, indicating that people who get vaccinated are less likely to die for any reason. This could be bad news for vaccine effectiveness.
More than a million Israelis could be stripped of their vaccine passports because they’ve not received a booster jab following the country's update of the meaning of 'full immunity'.
If the vaccines are highly effective against serious disease and death, why are the hospitalisation and death rates in Israel no better now than in 2020?
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has insisted to MPs in the Commons that vaccine passports are necessary to end the pandemic. Israel and India tell a different story.
Reported infections in England are rising in the most vaccinated age groups while they fall in the under 40s, and hospital admissions are getting older again. Is this a sign of declining vaccine effectiveness?
An Israeli study finds that natural immunity provides much more protection against infection than the Pfizer vaccine. If the finding proves to be robust, government priorities may shift substantially going forward.
Vaccine passports are back in Israel due to fears over the Delta variant. From today, Israelis over the age of three must show proof of Covid vaccination or of a negative test to be allowed into indoor public spaces.
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