Today's Must-Reads - 28 July 2022
A selection of the latest news, 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. Today, this is for all subscribers but will be for paid subscribers only a lot of the time in the future.
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Climate Change
Newsmax - Gore Compares Climate Critics to Uvalde Police.
Times - China orders 300 million more tonnes of coal to be mined a year.
Covid
Nature - Symptoms and risk factors for long COVID in non-hospitalized adults.
Spectator - Has the lab leak theory really been disproved? There doesn't seem to be a smoking gun in the latest 'evidence'.
Washington Post - New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild.
Sky - Scientists identify how the coronavirus spike protein causes heart damage. New research has uncovered "direct evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is toxic to heart muscle cells," according to its lead author.
Daily Mail - 'We have an open mind': Flustered Fauci claims he is now open to COVID lab leak theory after emails revealed he dismissed the idea as a 'shiny object that will go away'.
Covid Mandates
Sky - Pandemic drinking could cause thousands of extra deaths and hospital admissions over next 20 years, NHS says.
Unherd - Remote learning was built to fail. School shutdowns were no innocent mistake.
ACP Journals - Masks for Prevention of Respiratory Virus Infections, Including SARS-CoV-2, in Health Care and Community Settings.
Outkick - Mask Mandates, Incredibly, Return to More School Districts.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Spectator - Germany’s energy crisis is a warning to Britain.
Telegraph - Britain dependent on imported power to keep lights on this winter, says National Grid. UK power plant closures leave country at mercy of Putin, critics warn.
WSJ - Chemicals Giant to Cut Production of Key Fertilizer Ingredient Amid Russian Gas Crisis. BASF’s move could have ramifications for the global food crisis.
AP News - EXPLAINER: How do we know when a recession has begun?
Guardian - There is a global debt crisis coming – and it won’t stop at Sri Lanka. Foreign capital flees poorer countries at the first sign of instability. The pandemic and Ukraine war ensure there is plenty of that around.
ZeroHedge - How Central Planners Sow Seeds Of Economic Ruin.
Health
BioPharmaDive - Pfizer study results show Paxlovid benefit less clear in lower-risk patients.
GB News - HIV breakthrough as patient 'cured' after living with virus since 1980s.
Daily Mail - 'You can take someone's DNA and design a weapon that can kill them': House intelligence committee member warns people not to share health data with sites like 23andMe because it can be used to program new bio-weapons to target them.
NY Times - How to Get Vaccinated, Tested and Treated for Monkeypox. A guide to finding the medical care you may need during the current outbreak.
Telesur - Japan: NRA Approves Releasing Radioactive Wastewater Into Ocean.
Politics
Spiked - Why our infrastructure is falling apart. Britain’s elites have given up on building for the future.
Brownstone - The Day Anthony Fauci Wrecked American Freedom.
Private Eye - A thoroughly Moderna Man. WILL Rishi Sunak's Treasury sign off on the cash needed for health secretary Sajid Javid's recently announced "strategic partnership" with vaccine maker Moderna? The chancellor certainly knows the company well from his previous life as a hedgie.
Unherd - Elon Musk is right about ESG. The label has become indistinguishable from a scam.
European Commission - Electronic identification (eID) is one of the tools to ensure secure access to online services and to carry out electronic transactions in a safer way.
Science
Indy100 - Existence of the Loch Ness Monster is a possibility after fossil discovery.
Daily Mail - Baffled scientists discover 'perfectly aligned' holes punched into the ground 1.7 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean that look like human-made excavations.
Indy100 - ‘Death pool’ discovered at the bottom of the sea which kills everything instantly.
Nature - RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Mathematical Model for Vibration Behavior Analysis of DNA and Using a Resonant Frequency of DNA for Genome Engineering
Ukraine
Vaccines
National Pulse - A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that people vaccinated against COVID-19 remained contagious with the virus for a longer period of time than their unvaccinated counterparts.
Independent - Step forward in developing a vaccine for all cold viruses, including Covid. Such a vaccine could provide some resilience if new coronavirus diseases emerge.
Washington Post - Opinion Covid vaccine uptake for the youngest children is shockingly low.
The Hill - Thousands report changes to menstrual bleeding after COVID-19 vaccine, study shows. Many women and menstruating people reported heavier bleeding after getting the jab.
bioRxiv - Vaccination shapes evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2.
Epoch Times - Vaccine-Derived Polio Case Discovered in NY as Officials Issue Alert to Hospitals.
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“Menstruating people?” Please.