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5 May 2024
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Next week, our representatives meeting at the UN will sign off on a new pandemic political declaration, paving the way for the treaty that will transfer legal authority over pandemic response to the WHO.
Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan write that their Cochrane review on masks found no evidence they stopped viruses – a politically inconvenient conclusion that had to be silenced, come what may.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has said criticism of California’s tough COVID-19 restrictions was valid and he would have taken an entirely different approach, given what he knows now about the pandemic.
Oliver Brown has written a stirring tribute to the defiance and determination of Novak Djokovic, who "stuck it to the two countries who locked him out" by winning in both the U.S. and Australia this year.
A U.S. federal court has ruled that the Biden administration violated the U.S. Constitution by making threatening demands of social media companies that they censor dissenting scientists over pandemic policies.
A new paper estimates that China saw 1.9 million excess deaths after it abandoned Zero Covid. The Chinese turned their entire society upside down fighting Covid, and in the end did no better than the Swedes.
Amid rising concerns over the new COVID-19 variant Pirola, the Scottish Government is seriously considering the reinstatement of mask mandates and lockdowns.
Christopher Stevens in the Mail has reviewed Helping Our Teens, a BBC 2 show that he says shows the real price of Covid in the terrible impact of lockdowns on the U.K.'s two million troubled teens.
Asymptomatic people with Covid are only responsible for a tiny fraction of spread, a study in the Lancet has found, exploding a myth that formed a key part of pandemic social distancing policies and fear messaging.
Civil servants face a crackdown on working from home as ministers plan the end of the 'Tuesday to Thursday' office culture in Whitehall that is blamed for plummeting productivity since the pandemic.
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