What Happened to the Lab-leak Hypothesis?
Matt Ridley, Alina Chan Eschewing speculation and sticking to what we could prove, we delved deep into the evidence and wove together the threads that linked bat viruses from southern China or Southeast Asia with an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. We concluded that it was impossible to be sure yet, but two theories […]
The “Lab-Leak Theory” Returns … As Yet Another Fake Binary
Kit Knightly … The “Lab-leak theory” – which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a “gain-of-function” program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population – first came to the front pages as early as January 2020. At the time it was deemed a “racist” “anti-china” conspiracy theory” […]
Did Covid Vaccines Save Tens of Millions of Lives?
Roger Koops Did the introduction of Covid vaccines reduce mortality? A recent preprint, with the now questionable Medical Journal Lancet, makes the claim that the Covid vaccine introduction in December 2020 actually prevented tens of millions of deaths worldwide. … So, what is wrong with this article? I do not even need to know the algorithms […]
Comparing SARS-CoV-2 Natural Immunity to Vaccine-induced Immunity: Reinfections verses Breakthrough Infections
Sivan Gazit et al. Reports of waning vaccine-induced immunity against COVID-19 have begun to surface. With that, the comparable long-term protection conferred by previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 remains unclear. … This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, […]
Pfizer, Moderna COVID Vaccines May Increase Risk of Infection, Study Shows
Megan Redshaw A new peer-reviewed study shows two doses of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine yield negative protection against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, while previous infection without vaccination offers about 50% immunity. The findings, published June 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) analyzed information from more than 100,000 Omicron-infected and non-infected residents in Qatar from Dec. 23, 2021, through Feb. […]
CDC Admits Once and For All It Has No Basis for Its Claim That COVID-19 Vaccines Do Not Cause Variants
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) ICAN, through its attorneys, has now asked the CDC to support its claim that COVID-19 vaccines are not causing variants in every way possible … and we just received a third and final response from the CDC quoted in the chart below. This chart makes it crystal clear that the […]
Correlation Between Mask Compliance and COVID-19 Outcomes in Europe
Beny Spira Masking was the single most common non-pharmaceutical intervention in the course of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Most countries have implemented recommendations or mandates regarding the use of masks in public spaces. The aim of this short study was to analyse the correlation between mask usage against morbidity and mortality rates in […]
Long Covid Study Shows High Rates of Serious Vaccine Side-effects
Amanuensis The paper I’m looking at in this article is the one by Al-Aly et al., published in Nature on May 25th, titled “Long Covid after breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection“. This compared outcomes after Covid infection of almost 35,000 vaccinated U.S. veterans with a set of control groups … The study found a significant increase in sequelae in those having […]
