News Round-Up
4 December 2023
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In New Zealand, Rebekah Barnett reports on concerns of secrecy and double standards as it's revealed that over 11,000 healthcare workers obtained Covid vaccination mandate exemptions from the Ministry of Health.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky knew that Covid vaccines did not stop infections in January 2021 but continued to claim they did and promote policies based on it, a newly released email reveals.
The United States Navy has turned to a drag performer in its efforts to reach younger recruits on digital platforms and social media – but still expects to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goals.
Finally, the U.S. has dropped COVID-19 vaccination requirements for international travellers. Starting on May 12th, non-US citizens won't have to be vaccinated as a condition of entering the United States.
Great Barrington Declaration legends Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya have written an op-ed in the New York Post calling for a 'Covid commission' to help the U.S. learn from the debacle of the last three years.
Kiwi commentator Guy Hatchard writes Jacinda Ardern’s political obit for the Daily Sceptic: her disastrous policies have left New Zealand with a tanking economy, rising crime and a liberal democracy in intensive care.
The risk of Omicron infection increases dramatically with the number of vaccine doses, by up to 300% for three or more doses, a study has found, in one the most striking illustrations of negative efficacy yet to emerge.
Dr. Angus Dalgleish, a Professor of Oncology, wrote to Dr. Kamran Abbasi, the Editor in Chief of the BMJ, to alert him to worrying signals he is seeing in his patients and contacts following Covid vaccination.
More than 13,300 NHS hospital beds – one in seven – were filled with patients fit for discharge but unable to leave each day last month, triple the pre-pandemic figure, as excess non-Covid deaths continue to climb.
Brown Professor Emily Oster has called for a "pandemic amnesty", pleading ignorance on the failed, coercive policies. But were experts really ignorant, and is an amnesty really the right way forward?
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