Category: COVID

How the Bureaucracy Wrecks International Travel

News Analysis Like all truly great bureaucracies, unelected U.S. government staff members revel in adhering to nonsensical, inefficient procedures to create some semblance of order and limit autonomous decision-making. When it comes to U.S. international travel policy, President Biden’s bureaucratic army has come out in full force to accomplish absolutely nothing and avoid all responsibility….


Big Pharma Set to Hit Sales Cliff as Demand for COVID Vaccine Is Set to Plummet in 2023

Big Pharma is facing a reckoning as they face a sales cliff with demand for the COVID vaccine projected to plummet by the end of the year. The world’s largest pharmaceutical companies have raked in billions from the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years, after governments around the world mandated vaccines for their populations….


Just How Hard Were We Trolled?

Commentary What if Anthony Fauci co-authored an article on vaccines that would have gotten you and I blocked and banned at any point in the last three years? That just happened. His article in Cell—“Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses”—says it as plainly as possible: the COVID vaccine did not work…


Positive COVID Test Result No Longer Required to Prescribe Paxlovid, Lagevrio: FDA

Doctors and pharmacists can now prescribe COVID-19 drugs Paxlovid and Lagevrio to patients without a positive test of infection, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Wednesday. Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Lagevrio were granted emergency-use authorizations by the FDA in December 2021. Both oral pills have since been used as postinfection treatments for patients…


Regeneron Quarterly Profit Plunged to 46 Percent as Eye Drug Sales Drop, COVID Drug Sales Dry Up

Regeneron Pharmaceutical’s fourth-quarter profit was negatively impacted after sales of its COVID antibody cocktail dried up and lackluster sales of its blockbuster eye drug, Eylea, but sales of its eczema drug Dupixent helped recover some losses. The pharmaceutical company’s quarterly report, released on Feb. 3, saw earnings initially fall by 46 percent due to reports of…


Police on 24-Hour Shifts Outside Chinese Funeral Parlors: Leaked Document

Covering up the massive number of fatalities caused by China’s resurging pandemic has become a major task for Beijing’s health officials, as photos in international news media reveal long lines of hearses, makeshift morgues, and body bags lining hospital hallways. A leaked document from the State Council’s health advisory group recently revealed how local governments…


The Masking Debate Is Settled

Commentary What is the Cochran Library? “The Cochrane Library contains high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes reliable evidence from Cochrane and other systematic reviews, clinical trials, and more. Cochrane reviews bring you the combined results of the world’s best medical research studies, and are recognized as the gold standard in evidence-based health…


Blindsight Is 2020

Commentary Why would a 66-year-old woman object so strenuously to policies designed to keep her safe? My book “Blindsight Is 2020,” just published by Brownstone Institute, takes on the question. The book grew out of my deep concerns about the pandemic lockdowns, mandates, and what I call COVID culture. I’m honored to share a few details…


The Biomedical Security State, British Edition

Commentary First, by way of contextual backdrop, let me offer a quick recap of some relevant developments, which I describe in more detail in “The New Abnormal”: November 2021: As reported by the New York Times, the Israeli government issued emergency pandemic legislation permitting Shin Bet (their equivalent of the CIA), to access mobile phones and extract track…


How Mechanical Ventilation on COVID-19 Patients May Be a Death Sentence

It sounds outlandish, but millions of lives may have been sacrificed by hospitals that have essentially turned into killing fields. How else can you explain the fact that, despite knowing this standard of care was a death sentence since May 2020, they’re still using it to this day? Story at a Glance By May 2020,…