In a recent viral tweet, the German Health Minister shared a graph suggesting that Omicron is a threat to children. Yet a new U.S. study shows that Omicron is significantly less deadly than Delta in under 5s.
Original antigenic sin could explain why infection rates are higher among the double-vaccinated. Now the New York Times has noted that getting boosters too often may be "harmful" because of "original antigenic sin".
Several countries have seen post-vaccination waves that were as or more deadly – in terms of excess mortality – than a pre-vaccination wave. This is hard to reconcile with claims of 90% effectiveness against death.
Research from both the U.S. and the U.K. has found that vaccinated people are less likely to die of non-Covid causes. This suggests that vaccine effectiveness against severe Covid may has been overestimated.
How do we know that official Covid deaths are overestimated? In the two-month period from March to April of 2021, more than 4,000 Covid deaths were recorded in England. Yet excess mortality was negative.
An Italian study followed 56 patients who were admitted to the ICU for Covid. One year later, the vast majority reported good quality of life, indicating that most discharged patients make a good recovery.
The hypocrisy of the Downing Street parties certainly should be condemned. But the real lesson is that the rules were wrong – so obviously wrong that even the Government couldn't be bothered to follow them.
New emails have revealed how top scientists sought to stifle discussion around the lab leak theory. The former head of the NIH asked what his organisation could do to "help put down" this "very destructive conspiracy".
An article in The Times claims Britain's death toll would have been much higher if we hadn't locked down. Yet it omits one very important point: infections were almost certainly falling when the first lockdown began.
Researchers identified a group of healthcare workers who did not become infected during the first wave. They found evidence of pre-existing T-cell immunity, suggesting that not everyone is equally susceptible to Covid.
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