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Anders Tegnell is leaving his post as Chief Epidemiologist of Sweden to take up a role at the World Health Organisation. But was he pushed?
More 'experts' have weighed in, claiming the decision to phase out all Covid restrictions is "premature" and "not based on current evidence". Meanwhile, infections, hospitalisations and deaths continue to plummet.
The World Health Organisation has said we are only at the "halfway mark" of the pandemic and warned against treating Covid like flu, days after the Government said it intended to do just that.
Today, January 23rd, is the day, in 2020, when the world changed as China first implemented in Wuhan the novel public health policy that has come to define the COVID-19 pandemic. Will we ever now escape from its legacy?
The WHO has warned the Government against lifting Plan B restrictions, calling it "unwise" – but Tory MPs disagree, saying the Government would "be mad" to keep the mask mandate in place.
The Wellcome Trust has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”, as Israeli Prof Ehud Qimron slams the lockdown consensus as a failure based on myths and lies.
The coronavirus is "nowhere near" endemic, the World Health Organisation has said, while Pfizer's CEO says an Omicron vaccine is on its way and admits two doses no longer work. Some people don't want this to end.
The WHO has called on members of the public to consider cancelling their original Christmas plans in order to slow the spread of the Omicron variant, mentioning that “an event cancelled is better than a life cancelled”.
Examining the evidence gathered from South Africa, the World Health Organisation believes that the Omicron variant is mild, and has called on governments around the world to end the hysteria.
The WHO is embroiled in a new scandal: at least a third of its team investigating the origins of COVID-19, appointed last week, have conflicts of interest due to research links or previous statements about the disease.
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