News Round-Up

• “Daily Covid admissions rise for seventh day in a row and cases jump by 56%” – Latest hospital data show there were 1,406 daily virus admissions across the U.K. on March 6th, up a third compared to the previous week and the seventh day in a row they have risen week-on-week, reports the Mail.
• “Covid pandemic is not over, expert warns as hospital admissions rise” – “We can expect to see Covid circulating at high levels,” says UKHSA Chief Executive Dr. Jenny Harries, according to the Mail. If it’s not over, why have deaths been below average all winter?
• “W.H.O. Chief Tedros Demands Attention: Says Pandemic ‘Far from Over’” – The coronavirus pandemic is not over and governments must continue testing and contact tracing to fight its progress, the W.H.O. declared, reports Breitbart News. They really want to keep this dragging on, don’t they.
• “The hidden victims of lockdown: an interview with the Children’s Commissioner” – When schools were closed during lockdown, it wasn’t only education that suffered – the classroom can offer an opportunity to identify children in danger of abuse, Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza tells Katy Balls in the Spectator.
• “Covid is now less deadly than the flu, scientists say” – It is certainly possible that Covid is now less deadly than flu, infectious diseases expert Professor Paul Hunter said today, although he warned another variant could still change this, reports the Mail.
• “This doctor’s alarming observations are sufficient to halt the Covid vaccines in the U.S.” – A post by “A Midwestern Doc” isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Based on just this one doctor’s observations, the vaccines should be immediately halted worldwide, writes Steve Kirsch on his Substack page.
• “Famotidine Shows Promise as Early Care COVID-19 Drug based on Published Study Results” – In a study now peer-reviewed and published, a New York-based team contribute further evidence showcasing the potential of famotidine as a treatment for COVID-19, reports TrialSite News.
• “An Interview With Ventavia and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine Trial Whistleblower Brook Jackson” – Sonia Elijah in TrialSite News interviews Brook Jackson, who has over 20 years clinical trial managerial experience, and who claims Ventavia, a Pfizer vaccine trial contractor for whom she worked, committed fraud, put patient safety at risk and engaged in cover-ups of errors and malfeasance.
• “Is Putin to blame for Britain’s Covid resurgence?” – Some scientists have said that Britain’s Covid outbreak may be rebounding because Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed the virus out of the headlines, the Mail reports. Yes, really.
• “Who Killed Granny? Pandemic Death Protocols in Canada’s Long-term Care Facilities” – Anna Farrow in C2C Journal explores the widespread use of “population triage” in several jurisdictions during the pandemic’s early months, which included not merely withholding advanced care but ‘end-of-life measures’ using fatal drug cocktails.
• “Vancouver Coastal Health’s top doctor said vaccine mandates may cause more harm than good, letter reveals” – Chief Medical Health Officer Patricia Daly, in a letter to the University of British Columbia president, had argued that COVID-19 vaccines are not effective at preventing infection or transmission of the Omicron variant, reports the Globe and Mail.
• “United Airlines to Let Workers Who Didn’t Get COVID-19 Vaccine Return to Work” – In the latest mandate reverse ferret, United Airlines plans to let workers who declined to get a COVID-19 vaccine return to work, reports the Epoch Times.
• “Covid inquiry will probe if NHS lack of capacity led to lockdown” – The scope of No.10’s long-awaited Covid inquiry has been revealed today with a publication of the draft topics to explore including the “preparedness, initial capacity and resilience” of the NHS in all U.K. nations, reports the Mail.
• “ZOE app Government funding to end” – The ZOE team announces that Government funding for its Covid Study will end in less than a month. Is this the end for the app that revises its methodology when inconvenient trends in the vaccinated emerge, or will it secure alternative funding?
• “Is global warming really more dangerous than Putin’s nuclear threats?” – “My wish is that we would be a little less credulous,” writes Rod Liddle in the Spectator. “A lot of the stuff that makes the front pages of the newspapers later seems to dissolve a little under scrutiny.” 
• “Sturgeon: Ramping up oil and gas extraction in North Sea ‘impractical’” – The Scottish First Minister told MSPs at Holyrood on Thursday that ramping up oil and gas extraction would take years to put in place and would not provide a short term solution to the problem, the Mail reports.
• “Why C.S. Lewis was right about war” – No sooner had Vladimir Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine than the U.K.’s Covid advisory group SAGE disbanded. The same effect was felt in the U.S., where the outbreak of war in Europe led to the immediate, unlamented disappearance of Dr. Anthony Fauci, says Douglas Murray in the Spectator.
• “Elon Musk rails against woke trend to make corporate world more ‘socially conscious’ saying ESG rules have been ‘twisted to insanity’ and should be ‘deleted if not fixed’” – Musk was criticising ESG, a checklist of ‘environmental, social and governance’ criteria companies are supposed to keep in mind when making decisions about what to invest in, reports the Mail.
• “Jimmy Carr is backed by Channel 4 bosses with a game show renewal” – The broadcaster confirmed the comic will host another eight episodes of the series, which first aired last year, despite calls for him to be ‘cancelled’ in the wake of his controversial joke, reports the Mail.
• “EU Orders Removal of Russian State-Owned Media From Search Results, Social-Media Reshares” – Europe’s effort to cut off access to Russian state-owned media extends to search engines and social-media posts, not just their television channels and online-video feeds, according to a copy of an email from the bloc’s executive arm, reports the Wall Street Journal.
• “Facebook will temporarily allow posts calling for violence against Russians, calls for Putin’s death” – Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
• “Doctors treating gender dysphoria feel ‘pressured to adopt unquestioning approach’” – Medics feel unable to query young patients’ choices, even when this is at odds with their clinical assessment and diagnosis, reports the Telegraph.
• “Hating people is not a crime and shouldn’t be treated as one, says police watchdog” – Sir Tom Winsor, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, says officers must enforce laws, not make up their own, and no thought is a crime, reports the Telegraph.
• “Labour has a woman problem” – Leading Labour figures would rather appease a woke minority than be straight with the public, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
• “Sanctioning Roman Abramovich will change football forever” – The most important principle for any form of investment is security. You need to know that you can get your money back if you happen to need it, and that as an asset can be sold as well as bought. Abramovich’s departure will mark the beginning of an exodus of global money from British football, writes Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.

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