Today's Must-Reads - 6 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
Set Publisher - The Sun Versus CO2 as the Cause of Climate Change Projected to 2050.
Dr Roy Spencer - June was the coolest June in 22 years.
Covid
Science - Bad news for Paxlovid? Coronavirus can find multiple ways to evade COVID-19 drug. Lab studies identify resistance mutations in SARS-CoV-2’s protease, and some circulating variants have them.
Cell - Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in severe disease and long COVID-19.
Daily Mail - Will Covid ruin summer AGAIN? Holiday hopes could be dashed by soaring cases and tourist hotspots bringing back restrictions on Britons.
medRxiv - Accelerated SARS-CoV-2 intrahost evolution leading to distinct genotypes during chronic infection.
Daily Mail - Children with 'long Covid' actually have a mental illness, suggest health chiefs.
HART - Natural immunity is not – and never was – just a right-wing conspiracy theory.
Covid Mandates
TNC - 100 Sikh security guards fired for not adhering to Toronto’s mask mandate.
Daily Mail - 'Happy children became sad, angry and demotivated': A chilling warning that Covid school closures would devastate pupils was IGNORED by the Government at the height of lockdown, campaigners claim, as they share how they unearthed the scientific report.
Guardian - Australia to dump Covid vaccine requirements and travel exemptions for international arrivals. People arriving in the country will no longer need to use the digital passenger declaration under changes to come into effect next week.
Daily Mail - Are Covid restrictions STILL on the cards? Boris refuses to rule out curbs but says there's no plans for any 'at the moment' despite virus hospital admissions trebling in a month.
NY Times - Denmark’s Leader Apologizes for Botched Mink Cull During Pandemic.
Economy/Finance
Spectator - Why Boris can’t blame rising energy prices on Ukraine.
BBC - School dinners: Beef off the menu as costs rise.
Telegraph - We are on track for a currency crisis – and bankruptcy.
Unherd - The Chinese recession was a hoax. The financial press claimed there was a slowdown — but was it real?
Health
CBC - Unexplained high death counts in N.B. concerning, health minister acknowledges.
Guardian - Dangerous incidents at UK laboratories ‘potentially exposed staff to Covid’. Official reports describe leaks of virus-laden fluids, a flood and a researcher bitten by an infected ferret.
Adom Online - Having sexual intercourse while standing can cause stroke – Health experts warn.
Fortune - WHO monkeypox emergency committee to reconvene ‘shortly’ as cases triple in Europe: It’s a ‘fast-moving outbreak that with every hour, day, and week is extending its reach’.
Times Now - Shocking! Study makes surprising discovery, links lack of sleep with heart attack risk.
Times - Alarm in A&E as 10% of patients return within a week.
Telegraph - UK polio outbreak ‘is our price for obsession with Covid’. Placing too much focus on coronavirus vaccine for children led to other routine inoculations being de-prioritised, MPs warn.
New Scientist - Solar storms may cause up to 5500 heart-related deaths in a given year.
NY Post - Falling asleep with the TV on could bring early death: study.
Sun - GREEN FINGERS Urgent warning to gardeners as soil ‘increases risk of killer heart disease’.
Politics
Breaking reports - Bill Gates Is Under Investigation After Buying A Massive Amount of Farmland in North Dakota.
WSWS - NATO prepares for “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors”.
Ukraine
Vaccines
News.com.au - DJ who ‘lost motor skills’ after Moderna vaccine says doctors privately admitted link. An Aussie DJ says he was left partially paralysed after the Moderna shot – but doctors refused to link his health problems to the vaccine.
WSJ - Why the Rush for Toddler Vaccines? Covid was clearly a health emergency for adults in 2020. By contrast, the urgency now feels political.
Wales Online - 30million people could get new Covid super booster codenamed 214.
El Observador - Judge ordered the government and Pfizer to present all the information on vaccines against covid-19 within 48 hours.
Brownstone - Are the Covid mRNA Vaccines Safe?
Telegraph - What every sceptical parent needs to know about vaccinating their children against Covid. Coronavirus cases may be rising again, but many parents are starting to wonder if they should put their faith in the resistance of the young.
Wow, the court ordering the Uruguay government & Pffizzer to present all the information on the Vax in 48 hours.... They are asking for things that most people in other countries would never know (Safety, indemnity, sale contracts) Will be keeping an eye on this one.
https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/juez-intimo-al-gobierno-y-a-pfizer-a-que-presenten-en-48-horas-toda-la-informacion-sobre-las-vacunas-contra-el-covid-19-20227219938
As a lifelong devotee of ridiculous horror films, I look forward with eager hope to Revenge of the Zombie Mink, and its many sequels.