Not going into lockdown was described as “a mad experiment” at the time, but Sweden can look to the winter with less trepidation than most One country can look to the winter with less trepidation than most. Last week, a study suggested that 30 per cent of Swedes have built up immunity to the virus….
Category: Public Health Reform
WSJ reports “Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No”
The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths. Do quick shutdowns work to fight the spread of Covid-19? Joe Malchow, Yinon Weiss and I wanted to find out. We set out to quantify how many deaths were caused by delayed shutdown orders on a state-by-state basis….
Doctor to Orlando Medical News: “Why Increasing Number of Cases of COVID-19 is NOT Bad News”
In marked contrast to measles, shingles, and other infectious disease, “cases” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever. Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing, and each positive test is reported as yet another “new” case of COVID-19! Hence, anyone who has a positive PCR test (the nasal…
Orlando Medical News reports “As COVID Testing Soars, Wait Times for Results Jump to a Week or More”
Elliot Truslow went to a CVS drugstore on June 15 in Tucson, Arizona, to get tested for the coronavirus. The drive-thru nasal swab test took less than 15 minutes. More than 22 days later, the University of Arizona graduate student was still waiting for results. “This is outrageous,” said Truslow, 30, who has been quarantining…
JB Handley writes “Lockdown Lunacy 2.0: Second wave? Not even close”
The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases. But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave. The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs… https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/2020/6/28/secondwave
The Hill reports “The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life”
Our governmental COVID-19 mitigation policy of broad societal lockdown focuses on containing the spread of the disease at all costs, instead of “flattening the curve” and preventing hospital overcrowding. Although well-intentioned, the lockdown was imposed without consideration of its consequences beyond those directly from the pandemic. The policies have created the greatest global economic disruption in history, with trillions…
Washington Post reports “Trump administration sends letter withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization over coronavirus response”
The Trump administration has begun the process of withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that could hurt the U.N. agency’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and reshape public health diplomacy. The notice of withdrawal, effective July 6, 2021, was sent Monday to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. Under the terms of…
Bloomberg reports “China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says”
China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, under-reporting both total cases and deaths it’s suffered from the disease, the U.S. intelligence community concluded in a classified report to the White House, according to three U.S. officials. The officials asked not to be identified because the report is secret, and they…