News Round-Up
6 October 2024
by Will Jones
Miliband Summons the Green Unicorns
6 October 2024
by Ben Pile
The French politician pushing the 'anti-Raoult' law (which many wrongly call the 'Pfizer law') was treated by the famed physician in March 2020 and credited Dr Raoult's hydroxychloroquine with curing her Covid.
With underreporting of up to 98%, the Yellow Card Scheme for adverse effects is not fit for purpose, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. What's more, drug side-effects are responsible for 6.5% of all hospital admissions.
More than £550 million of Covid drugs have been wasted in the U.K., according to analysis of health data by health analytics firm Airfinty.
Hydroxychloroquine was dismissed as a Covid treatment early on and its supporters were censored. But now a new peer-reviewed study finds the cheap drug dramatically cuts Covid mortality after all.
In February 2020, a few days after being released from his quarantine "imprisonment", Germany's first Covid patient told an interviewer: "I’m doing great. I was never in fact doing poorly."
How do you get people to take expensive medicine against something that hits them on average once a year and lasts a few days, like a cold? By manufacturing a pandemic, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Doctors will be free to prescribe ivermectin ‘off-label’ from June 1st, Australia announced today, reversing a ban enacted on September 10th 2021 to prevent doctors from prescribing the drug to treat Covid.
Use of palliative care drugs like midazolam skyrocketed to more than twice their usual levels during the first Covid wave, prompting speculation about their role in causing avoidable deaths.
Vitamin D cuts the risk of death from COVID-19 by 51% and the risk of ICU admission by 72%, a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials has found. But it's still not recommended for use in the U.K. Why not?
There's a mountain of evidence that vitamin D helps combat COVID-19, but a new randomised controlled trial claims to find it doesn't work. Here's what they did wrong.
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