covid

Vive la lockdown révolution! Growing rebellion against draconian Covid restrictions by easygoing Canadians shows the world the way

Since being told one year ago that the curve-flattening would be a two-week process, many Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses…

3 years ago

‘Zero Covid’ may sound ideal, but it’s utopian, fanciful, authoritarian nonsense. Is that why so many lefties love it?

Governments should adopt a strategy of eliminating Covid-19. Who could argue with that? After five months of lockdowns over the…

3 years ago

Italy, France and other EU states to restart AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine use after EU regulator’s blood clot review

"The government's priority remains to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible," Draghi said in a statement,…

3 years ago

‘Safe & effective’: EU drugs regulator backs AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab, though ‘can’t definitively rule out’ blood clot link

Following a review of the vaccine and reported rare incidents of blood clots among recipients, the EMA did not find a…

3 years ago

Covid-19 vaccine deliveries slow in April but will speed up in May, says UK minister, despite drug company rebuttal

“We have less supply than we might have hoped for the coming weeks, but we expect it to increase again…

3 years ago

Strikingly-high Covid-19 mortality rate reported in Spanish children could have been centenarians ‘misreported as kids’

The figures published by the respected British medical journal on Wednesday last week came as quite a shock to some…

3 years ago

Mandatory ‘freedom bracelets’? Israel OKs Covid tracking tech after ‘satisfied volunteers’ prefer it to military-run quarantines

Lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday allowing authorities to mandate the so-called ‘freedom bracelets’ for citizens, after a previous measure…

3 years ago

Countries aren’t being ‘guided by science’ over Covid vaccines – they’re playing politics with their citizens’ lives

We’ve seen a lot of lecterns during the pandemic, usually with politicians standing at them, telling us one thing or…

3 years ago

Spain’s 4-day work week plan in post-Covid world is utopia. Better pay, not shorter hours, is key to workplace happiness

The idea of a four-day working week has been a long-held fantasy of the Left but now it looks like…

3 years ago

Dutch hospitals on ‘code black’ standby for beds as Netherlands sees biggest Covid-19 infection rise since 2020

The Dutch Institute for Public Health (RIVM) reported a 24% increase in infections in the week to Tuesday, during which…

3 years ago