Today's Must-Reads - 19 April 2022
A selection of the latest news, studies, reports and articles
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I spend a lot of time each day gathering together new information and interesting articles. I then pick one or two of the most interesting topics and write about them. However, that leaves a lot of missed out information that I’m not sharing.
Below is a summary of all the latest articles and information that I’ve found today. Usually, this is for paid subscribers only but whilst I am sorting our my formatting this is for everyone. Please consider taking out a paid subscription because it enables me to spend longer reporting on the news that isn’t, but should be reported.
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Climate Change
Telegraph - Ban new boiler sales to switch people over to heat pumps, says infrastructure tsar. Sir John Armitt says prohibiting future sales will force people to make greener choices and help the Government meet net zero goals.
Forbes - Why “Alt-Protein” Won’t Save The Planet.
Covid
Guardian - Almost half of UK teachers had Covid last term, survey suggests.
NewsMax - Fool me once…... COVID Pill Paxlovid Demand Lags Due to Complications.
bioRxiv - Delta spike P681R mutation enhances SARS-CoV-2 fitness over Alpha variant.
Brownstone - More Evidence from the UK that Masks Don’t Work.
Covid Mandates
Forbes - Supreme Court Refuses To Hear NYC Vaccine Mandate Challenge From Teachers—Again.
Counter Signal - WHO and public officials consider using pandemic treaty to sanction sovereign nations.
CBS - Philadelphia faces lawsuit after reinstating indoor mask mandate amid spike in COVID cases
Finance
Guardian - Britain could fall into recession this summer, say experts.
WSJ - You will own nothing and be happy. Blackstone Bets on Campus Housing With $13 Billion Acquisition.
The Guardian - We can’t track you if you use cash. The big idea: should we embrace a cashless society?
Politics
Fox - Hunter Biden laptop: ABC, CBS, NBC spent only 25 minutes over 18 months covering scandal, study says
MPN - Government’s own data shows US interfered in 81 foreign elections.
Science
CBS - NASA discovers rapidly growing black hole — a "missing link" connecting the origins of the universe that was hiding in plain sight.
Ukraine
Newsweek - Battle of the New World Orders.
The Gray Zone - “One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
Vaccines
BMJ - Factors influencing estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in non-randomised studies - John Ioannidis.
ScienceDirect - Innate immune suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinations: The role of G-quadruplexes, exosomes, and MicroRNAs.
NewsMax - Moderna Updated COVID Vax: Original, Omicron Combo. Moderna (MRNA) hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work.
Bloomberg - J&J Cuts 2022 Profit Forecast, Suspends Covid Shot Guidance. Company says demand for pandemic vaccine remains unclear.
Daily Mail - Cancer vaccine using same mRNA technology as in Covid jabs could be a 'game-changer', experts say.
White House - Joint Statement Between the United States, Belize, Germany, Indonesia, and Senegal on the Announcement of the Second Global COVID-19 Summit.
Please keep checking back to the tomorrow’s Must-Reads as it will be updated throughout the day.
Second global covid-19 summit sounds scary when you read their target to vaccinate everyone...