Category: pandemic

Ohio Deploys Additional 1,250 National Guardsmen to Hospitals

Ohio is not shutting down, there is not a mask mandate in place, but the state is buckling down against the surge it is seeing in the COVID-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced that 1,250 more members of the Ohio National Guard are being deployed to hospitals throughout the state. That is in…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Dec. 27)

President Joe Biden says there’s no federal solution to the pandemic as new daily cases surpass the peak of the Delta surge, flights continue to be cancelled during the busiest time of the year for air travel, and a sudden change in China’s virus control measures made a U.S. flight turn back in midair.


As We Enter Another Year of COVID, Regaining Eroded Freedoms Must Be Our Focus

Commentary Anyone who still insists the COVID pandemic isn’t serious is being deliberately mischievous, obtuse, or needs to check in on their issues. As of Dec. 23, the World Health Organization put global deaths from COVID-19 at 5.3 million people dating back to Dec. 30, 2019. To put that in a fathomable context, it’s equivalent…


Lower IQ, Brain Damage, Anxiety—Children Pay High Price for Pandemic Policies

Children have been spared the worst of the disease, but the pandemic has taken a terrible toll on their mental health—we likely won’t know how bad for years. But it’s a question our two guests have been tracking closely and they offer some hints.  We’re joined by Dr. Mark McDonald, a clinical psychiatrist for children…


We Cannot Stop the Spread of COVID, but We Can End the Pandemic

The arrival of the omicron variant has led some politicians and public health grandees to call for a return to business closures and ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdowns. The variant has been found worldwide, including in the US and the UK. The variant has already surpassed delta – dominant before omicron – in the UK. Early reports from South Africa confirm that…


More Than 400 Pubs Vanish in England and Wales in 2021

More than 400 pubs have disappeared from communities in England and Wales as the number calling last orders flatlined despite the toll of the pandemic and pandemic-related restrictions. New analysis has revealed the number of pubs across England and Wales in 2021 was largely unchanged from last year. Analysis of official Government data by real…


US, Global Stock Markets Thrive Amidst Tensions, Pandemic, Inflation

Since the 2008-2009 Great Recession, the world has endured financial crises, geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, a pandemic, and so much more. But there has been one factor that has been remarkably persistent: the stock market, from the United States to the UK, has soared to a record high. As 2021 comes to a close, the…


What Can We Learn From the 1918 Pandemic?

This article is about the 1918 flu and the mythology that surrounds it. It is about mask mandates, aspirin overdoses as a possible cause of death, and fascinating historical parallels. When it comes to history, we are dependent on the “expert opinion.” History is usually written by the winners and shaped in real time to…


New Emails Reveal Evidence of Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech

Commentary A previously unseen Oct. 2020 email from Dr. Francis Collins, the outgoing head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to his colleague Dr. Anthony Fauci is raising concerns about government-sponsored suppression of free speech—a direct violation of the 1st Amendment. The email, which appears in a footnote of a Dec. 17 year-end staff report…


New York Lawmaker Pulls Public Health Detainment Bill, Blames ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

A New York lawmaker has taken down a 6-year-old bill that would authorize the state to detain infected individuals and their contacts deemed a threat to public health during a pandemic, blaming “conspiracy theorists” of spreading misinformation about his proposal. The bill in question, known as A416, was first introduced by Assemblyman Nick Perry in…