News Round-Up

• “Covid cases among over-70s hit highest ever levels” – Office for National Statistics finds around one in 23 in the age group has the virus – a higher prevalence than at the height of the winter Omicron wave, reports the Telegraph.
• “Ministers failed to allow Parliament opportunity to scrutinise UK Covid laws” – A cross-party committee of MPs said the Coronavirus Act was passed in an ‘unsatisfactory’ manner, reports the Guardian.
• “N.H. House Approves Bill for Ivermectin ‘Standing Order’ in Pharmacies” – The New Hampshire’s state House approved a bill making ivermectin available by a medical prescribers’ “standing order,” meaning pharmacists will be able to dispense the medication without individual prescriptions, reports TrialSite News.
• “CDC Removes 24% of Child COVID-19 Deaths, Thousands of Others” – The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed tens of thousands of deaths linked to COVID-19 to resolve a “coding logic error”, reports the Epoch Times. El Gato Malo is suspicious.
• “Moderna seeks FDA authorisation for fourth dose of Covid shot” – Drugmaker Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday to authorise a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults, reports the Associated Press.
• “Family of marketing executive, 45, who died of a stroke caused by the AstraZeneca jab say she is ‘dismissed as collateral damage’ as they fight for £120,000 payout” – Nicola Weideling suffered catastrophic bleeds on her brain after being hospitalised with blood clots caused by the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine she received just 24 days before she died, reports the Mail.
• “Wetherspoon’s pub trade returns to near pre-pandemic levels” – Pub giant JD Wetherspoon said sales in the past three weeks have been slightly below pre-pandemic levels as it more than halved its losses amid the continued recovery in trade, the Mail reports.
• “Is China about to abandon Zero Covid? Lockdown is eased in Shenzhen” – China’s southern tech powerhouse Shenzhen has partially eased lockdown measures, after President Xi Jinping stressed the need to “minimise the impact” of Covid on the economy, the Mail reports.
• “Hospital restrictions remain absurd and cruel” – Many NHS sites are still imposing draconian and vindictive policies; children are being separated from parents and dying relatives are being abandoned to a lonely end, says HART.
• “Reports of child deaths in the VAERS” – HART reviews the 28 reports of deaths of children in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System within six weeks of a Covid vaccine, arguing children have all of the risk and none of the benefit of vaccination.
• “How many times must they be told that masks make things worse?” – The evidence has been clear since early on and continues to grow that masks are hazardous to health, writes Kathy Gyngell in TCW Defending Freedom.
• “How Volatile Is Offshore Wind?” – It is commonly claimed that the wind is much more constant and reliable in the North Sea and around Britain’s coasts than it is inland – but it’s not true, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
• “Net Zero? Let the people decide” – If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that the Government following ‘the Science’ cannot be relied upon on to tell the whole truth on Net Zero any more than it did on Covid, writes Chris Davies in Bournbrook.
• “Cut speed limits and introduce car free Sundays to beat Putin oil shock, says IEA” – The International Energy Agency has called for radical measures not seen since the 1970s crisis to cope with the fall in supply, reports the Telegraph.
• “Going full ‘Extinction Rebellion’ will not defeat Vladimir Putin” – Don’t cut speed limits to beat the Russian despot, just drill for more oil, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Tony Sewell: ‘I was cancelled for my race report – but now I feel completely vindicated’” – The man who concluded that Britain is not racist describes his anger at vocal critics who seemingly took offence without reading his words, the Telegraph reports.
• “This is the end of free speech online” – The U.K.’s Online Safety Bill is an authoritarian nightmare, writes Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Lia Thomas’s victory is a defeat for women’s sport” – There is nothing fair or inclusive about allowing a male-bodied athlete to compete against women, writes Ella Whelan in Spiked.
• “Boris can’t ignore the culture wars forever” – The PM has a plan to deal with racial inequality – but will he go through with it, asks Henry Hill in UnHerd.
• “Equalities Minister says children should not be forced to take knee” – Kemi Badenoch said the idea of teaching race ideology is “absolutely terrifying” as she branded critical race theory “morally wrong” and insisted traditional values should not be thrown away, reports the Mail.
• “Why it was a mistake for Ofcom to remove Russia Today” – In conflicts, there is always a temptation to mirror the tactics of one’s opponents – which is why it’s depressing to see Ofcom do so by taking Russia Today (RT) off air, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.

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