French researchers claim the use of hydroxychloroquine from March to July 2020 was associated with an 11% increase in COVID patients' mortality rate and an estimated 16,990 deaths across six countries as a result.
BOSTON HERALD – Have you ever noticed that the lower Joe Biden sinks in the polls, the more the hysteria about COVID is ramped up in state-run media?
After all, the Panic worked so well for the Democrats in 2020. The Wuhan flu was, as Jane Fonda candidly put it, “God’s gift to the left.”
So now it’s election year again, which means that in three… two… one….
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Like Freddy...
NEW YORK MAGAZINE – Welcome to sick season.
According to the CDC, New York City — along with New Jersey and at least 16 other states — is now experiencing “high” to “very high” levels of respiratory-illness activity as measured by the number of weekly visits to health-care providers and emergency rooms by people having symptoms of fever, cough, and sore throat.
The culprits are the usual suspects: this year’s strains of influenza, COVID, and RSV.
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A new study offers encouraging evidence that people who get vaccinated before their first COVID-19 case are at significantly lower risk of developing long-term symptoms like brain fog and fatigue, with each additional dose received prior to infection offering extra protection.
The pandemic, which took a disproportionate toll on men, was the biggest contributor to the widening gap from 2019-2021, followed by unintentional injuries and poisonings (mostly drug overdoses), accidents, and suicide.
Mr Scott's lawyers told the Daily Telegraph they will argue that he suffered 'personal injuries', with an allegation that the jab was 'defective' and the efficacy of the vaccine had been misleading.
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER – The government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an astonishing number of businesses into bankruptcy.
But there’s no denying that there have been some winners in the federal government’s $5 trillion federal spending spree. That figure included $745 billion in direct aid to state and local governments.
Just ask Amy Gentry, an executive assistant to Illinois Emergency Management Agency Director Alicia Tate-Nadeau, who billed the agency more than $1 million since 2020...
ARS TECHNICA – Doctors in China are reporting a startling and unexplained spike in fetuses with situs inversus, a rare congenital condition in which the organs in the chest and abdomen are arranged in a mirror image of their normal positions.
In the first seven months of 2023, the rate of fetuses identified with the condition quadrupled compared with historic rates, according to a brief report appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday.
For...
BANGKOK (AP) — Wu Zunyou, an epidemiologist who helped drive the country's strict zero-COVID measures in China that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, died on Friday. He was 60.
An announcement from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention about Wu's death gave no cause, but said that "rescue measures failed."
Wu's health had been poor. He disappeared out of the public eye for months last year while battling cancer.
Wu, who...
ARS TECHNICA – Vaccine advisers for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously (12 to 0) Thursday to remove, "as soon as possible," a component of annual flu shots that targets a strain of the virus that appears to have gone extinct amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The vote follows a similar recommendation from the World Health Organization last week, which stated that "every effort should be made to exclude this component as soon as possible."
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