Today's Must-Reads - 24 April 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. 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

• Washington Post - Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms. The social media company says ads can’t contradict “scientific consensus” on the environmental crisis.

Wellcome @wellcometrust

Tackling climate as a health challenge requires the whole of society to work together. Our Climate and Health team explains why 🎥 #InvestInOurPlanet #EarthDay

Covid

• ScienceDirect - Six-month sequelae of post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infection: A retrospective cohort study of 10,024 breakthrough infections.

• Medical Xpress - Some cases of long COVID-19 may be caused by an abnormally suppressed immune system.

• DailyExpose - From Covid-19 to BioLabs; all roads lead back to the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

• Washington Monthly - What Sweden Got Right About COVID. The U.S. botched the pandemic—overprotecting kids at low risk of serious illness and under-protecting older Americans. Stockholm pursued a light touch and fared far better.

• BMJ - P31 Covid-19 induced hepatitis (CIH), definition and diagnostic criteria of a poorly understood new clinical syndrome.

• Independent Science News - Delete, Deny, and Destroy: Chinese and Western Strategies To Erase COVID’s Origin Are Being Exposed By Independent Research.

• Retraction Watch - COVID-19-vitamin D paper retracted by Springer Nature journal

Covid Mandates

• Axios - WHO: People should wear masks in public even if it's not mandatory.

James Melville @JamesMelville

Justin Trudeau to school children: "Every time you wore a mask, every time you stayed safe and stayed home, you were making things better...you were sacrificing for the good of all." This is manipulation. No child should have to sacrifice like this.

Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth

EU confirming all 27 member states will have to implement the Covid green pass by July 1st. The UK just handed out an £18 million contract for further development of the Covid pass. A vaccine passport won’t set you free, it will enslave you. #COVID19

Finance

• Zero Hedge - Baltimore Residents To Get $1,000 Checks In UBI Pilot Test.

  FugitiveMama @fugitivemama

  “Everyone has less money in their pocket because of healthcare. In the last 10 years, healthcare costs have increased 50%…” Gee, I thought #Obamacare was supposed to fix that… #BideninWA

• Independent - French finance minister warns of ‘new era of higher inflation’.

Health

• Daily Mail - Fruit and vegetables sold in the UK are 'half as nutritious' as 80 years ago due to depleted levels of iron, magnesium, sodium and copper, study shows.

• WHO - Multi-Country – Acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children.

• Nature - Genetic origins of schizophrenia find common ground.

Politics

Disclose.tv @disclosetv

JUST IN - EU reaches deal on Digital Services Act for "making the internet a safer space" by requiring social media platforms to more aggressively police their platforms than ever before.

• Spectator - Why Putin’s ‘Satanic’ missile launch matters. The Satan II is fast enough to hit London in 13 minutes.

• Zero Hedge - China's Xi Echoes Putin In Proposal For New "Global Security Initiative" Amid Mounting International Criticism.

Ukraine

• GB News - President Zelenskyy thanks UK for training Ukrainian military on home soil.

• Reuters - EU says pay for Russian gas in euros to avoid breaching sanctions.

Vaccines

• Lancet - Randomised Clinical Trials of COVID-19 Vaccines: Do Adenovirus-Vector Vaccines Have Beneficial Non-Specific Effects?

• CTV News - Vaccine backlash: Calgary oil giant facing dozens of lawsuits from former employees over COVID-19 shot.

• Lancet - Durability of BNT162b2 vaccine against hospital and emergency department admissions due to the omicron and delta variants in a large health system in the USA: a test-negative case–control study

  Wittgenstein @backtolife_2022

  Obama: "Despite the fact that we have now essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide. Around 1 in 5 Americans is still going to put themselves at risk... rather than get vaccinated."

• Brownstone - Have People Been Given the Wrong Vaccine? Randomized controlled trials show all-cause mortality reduction from the Covid adenovirus-vector vaccines but not from the mRNA vaccines.