The COVID-19 pandemic is "nowhere near over", warns WHO Director-General Tedros, as he urges governments to reintroduce measures like face masks to "push back" against a rise in global Covid infections.
An international report by the WHO found two years of restrictions have led to "significant mental health consequences", especially for young people, with mental disorders up more than a quarter since 2019.
The head of the WHO privately believes Covid originated in a Wuhan lab, despite publicly dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a 'conspiracy theory'.
Former UN Assistant Secretary-General Ramesh Thakur has warned of a massive expansion of the international pandemic bureaucracy and the powers of the WHO to press countries towards authoritarian public health measures.
The new WHO pandemic treaty continues to move forward, but the last thing we need is the WHO putting the world on permanent alert and pushing for 'precautionary' lockdowns every time a bat sneezes or a lab leaks.
The World Health Organisation is to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official pandemic guidance, and has said the work to do this is already underway.
In this week's London Calling, the topics are the WHO pandemic treaty, the woke Ninjas who risked life and limb to take on... middle-aged feminists and my excitement about seeing Top Gun: Maverick.
Many are concerned that the US amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty will transfer sovereignty over public health policy to an unelected and unaccountable global organisation. How worried should we be?
The WHO claims India has missed 90% of its Covid deaths, attributing to the country nearly 5 million deaths, almost a third of the world total and 10 times the official count of 481,486. That is simply not credible.
Sweden's below average excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 means we should redraft the terms of the Covid inquiry, argues Professor Robert Dingwall. We now have incontrovertible proof that the lockdowns didn't work.
