News Round-Up
3 October 2024
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Norwegian journalist Kathrine Jebsen Moore explains why she's so ashamed that her country decided to join Spain and Ireland in recognising the Palestinian state, thereby rewarding Hamas for the October 7th massacre.
A recent Norwegian study explores the link between face mask use and COVID-19 risk, finding a 33-40% higher risk in frequent mask wearers.
A headmistress in Norway is being cancelled because she voiced her frustration when a Muslim student refused to shake her hand because it was ‘haram’.
Have we finally reached peak woke? An associate professor at a Norwegian university has embarked on a well-funded research project to expose the connection between white supremacy and... white paint.
Who needs conspiracy theorists when you’ve got school books teaching children that Covid vaccines are “95% effective”? This is now the situation in Norway.
Covid vaccination increases the risk of severe heart inflammation up to 120-fold, a major study from Scandinavia published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has found.
Pandemic death tolls in Western Europe have been converging over the last two years. This suggests that, regardless of which policies you impose, a certain number of Covid deaths are more-or-less unavoidable.
As the UK ends its remaining Covid travel rules and restrictions, here are other countries that got there first and to where UK citizens can now travel in the normal pre-pandemic way.
Norway scrapped almost all remaining restrictions today, doing away with its self-isolation and face mask requirements and ending social distancing, despite being in the middle of its Omicron surge.
A new study from Norway finds vaccination makes no difference to the risk of dying in hospital from Covid, though it does reduce severity for survivors in terms of length of hospital stay and risk of ICU admission.
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