Today's Must-Reads - 20 March 2022
A selection of studies, reports and articles
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 today it is a slimmed down version 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.
Climate Change
The Hill - Coming soon: Climate lockdowns?
Covid
SSRN - Evaluating Incidence and Impact Estimates of the Coronavirus Outbreak from Official and Non-Official Chinese Data Sources.
medRxiv - Immunosequencing and epitope mapping reveal substantial preservation of the T cell immune response to Omicron generated by SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Nature - Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity.
The Sun - 'WRONG ALL ALONG' Covid death figures ‘may have been completely wrong due to poor statistics’.
Springer - A case series of severe breakthrough infections observed in nine patients with COVID-19 in a southwestern German university hospital.
Cell - SARS-CoV-2 infection paralyzes cytotoxic and metabolic functions of the immune cells.
Wiley - Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis associated with COVID-19 infection: A case report.
NY Times - Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?
Telegraph - Covid deaths impossible to calculate as authorities used 14 different ways to record them
WSJ - Ivermectin Didn’t Reduce Covid-19 Hospitalizations in Largest Trial to Date.
Lancet - Comparative analysis of the risks of hospitalisation and death associated with SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) and delta (B.1.617.2) variants in England: a cohort study.
Covid Mandates
Daily Mail - New woke NYC health commissioner sparks fury as he orders under-fives to be masked FOREVER and says his four-year-old isn't 'safe' without one: Furious parents slam the defund the police supporting mental health expert for 'torturing' kids.
NY Post - Why we must demand that leaders who got COVID wrong admit it and apologize.
Express - Banning children from school in pandemic was a mistake, says Zahawi.
Daily Mail - Couple who were fined £35,000 for refusing to close their gift card shop during Covid lockdowns because they said it also sold 'essential' items WIN court appeal against their conviction.
News.Com.Au - Dr Kerryn Phelps calls for indoor masks after insisting Covid-19 pandemic ‘is not over’.
Politics
NY Post - Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it.
Science
BBC - UK's safe level for tap water too high - scientists.
Jacobin - What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illness.
Post Millennial - BREAKING: Fauci says he’s considering retiring.
Ukraine
Jerusalem Post - Zelensky strikes the wrong note to bring Knesset to his side - analysis.
Economic Times - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspends parties with Russian links.
Zero Hedge - These Charts Show Russia's Invasion Choking World Of Natural Resources.
Rebel News - Yuri Gagarin's name censored from Space Symposium conference.
Vaccines
JAMA Network - Myocarditis Following a Third BNT162b2 Vaccination Dose in Military Recruits in Israel.
America Out Loud - One mRNA, One Spike Protein, 1291 Diseases, Unlimited Ways to Die.
Daily Mail - Warning that Australians could need FIVE doses of a Covid-19 vaccine to be considered fully protected - and the people who should ALREADY be getting four jabs.
Business Standard - Covid: China says vaccine makers upgraded shots to fight Omicron.
Guardian - Covid immunity declines steeply in care home residents in England – study.
Jerusalem Post - Fourth vaccine offers little protection against COVID-19 - study.
Fierce Pharma - Moderna CEO Bancel set for a soft landing as his golden parachute swells to $926M.
Viruses
PubMed - Continuous increase of herpes zoster cases in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quick reads and a theme is clear...does this mean there’s a trend? We don’t really know how many people died FROM Covid. And vaxxes don’t work.
Breakthrough infection = vaccine failure
I can't read the WSJ article, but if they are referring to the itech study they need to look deeper. Reducing hospitalization is not the only or best goal. Fewer people died in the ivermectin group.