Last week, The New York Times ran a piece titled ‘Needless Suffering: Britain offers a warning of what happens when a country ignores Covid’. But infections are in steady decline. And even if they weren't, so what?
The New York Times has been forced to correct a piece it published earlier this week which claimed "nearly 900,000 children have been hospitalised with Covid since the pandemic began". The real figure is 63,000.
A New York Times article calls for universal masking in schools, based on a recent study. However, that study had no control group. And the authors don't consider the costs of forcing children to wear masks.
Ashley Rindsberg, author of a book about the New York Times, has asked why the paper was so quick to dismiss the lab leak theory last year. Was it because of its extensive Chinese interests?
As a recent NYT article notes, nearly every case of SARS since the first outbreak has been due to lab leaks. There have been "six incidents in three countries, including twice in a single month from a lab in Beijing".
A recent New York Times article claims that "Britain had more daily Covid-related deaths during the surge involving B.1.1.7". However, peak weekly mortality was actually lower in the second wave than in the first.
When the New York Times weighs in to fact check the CDC, you know something is in the wind. Reporter David Leonhardt says the CDC's advice that less than 10% of transmission occurs outdoors is true but deceiving.
