Public health oops: Wearing masks had health risks
New paper finds CO2 levels among mask wearers exceeded exposure limits and may have led to stillbirths and damage to adolescents.
Twitter is filled with posts like this
Twitter is filled with selfies or self portraits of a couple or a family all wearing a variety of masks, saying the pandemic is not over, we must continue to…
Public health: Covid death rates blamed on ethnicity by Czech public health minister
April 11, 2020, Czechia Deputy Minister of Health, Roman Prymula: “It turns out that different races have different numbers of receptors, and that virus binds to several receptors. This is…
Public health: NPIs didn’t work, and few now trust public health
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Public health oops: Masks made no difference in health care settings
In a world moving on from the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and medical offices have been the last bastions of mandatory masking. But new research finds that in communities where pandemic…
Public health oops: “Masks in hospitals made ‘no difference’ to Covid infection rates”
Researchers from St George’s Hospital in London analysed routinely collected infection control data over a 40-week period between December 4, 2021 and September 10, 2022. …. Researchers found removing the…
Follow up: “XBB.1.5 to be “deadliest wave in pandemic history”
Another “expert” prediction crashed and burned to the ground. Jacob B. Aguilar, PhD on Twitter: “I wish all a prosperous 2023. However, in realty the XBB.1.5 SUPER variant is exploding…
Public health: Public health policies caused mental health issues for those over 50
Fake news web site The Guardian, of course, blames the “pandemic” rather than the ineffective policies and fear mongering (much of which was false) that caused harm: The mental health…
Why the shortage of Adderall and Xanax? Because we are a nation of idiots
A secret pharmacy order limit has made patients with sleep, anxiety and attention disorders scramble for their medications. Source: Adderall, Xanax Are Hard to Get Because of the Opioid Crisis…
Public health: Neil Ferguson’s latest disease model projects 5% of world’s population may die of bird flu
UK scientists tasked with developing ‘scenarios of early human transmission’ of bird flu have warned that five per cent of infected people could die if the virus took off in…
Public Health: Australian Government removes approval for Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine
Remember, if you questioned anything about any vaccine during the past few years, you were a purveyor of disinformation and deserved to be censored: From Monday 20 March 2023 Vaxzevria…
Follow up: Oregon expects to see an upsurge in Covid and flu in 2022-2023 season
Studies from the Oregon Health and Science University suggest that COVID-19 cases will rise this fall, and we can expect to see a flu season comparable to pre-pandemic years. Source:…
Public health: WHO proposes to end state sovereignty on public health issues
They would hardwire into international law a top-down supranational approach to public health in which the WHO, acting in some cases via the sole discretion of one individual, its Director…
Public health: “How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America” #MasksForAll
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than…
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…