Tag: COVID

10 Chinese Medical Experts Die as Beijing Eases COVID Restrictions

Ten famous Chinese medical experts passed away soon after Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy. Most of them were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and two were allegedly involved in the live organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. While the Chinese media reported the deaths resulting from “illness,” they didn’t provide additional information, causing…


Deaths Among CCP Elites Rise as COVID-19 Wave Hits China

It started with a high fever, a telltale sign of COVID-19, that soon led to a positive COVID-19 test result. Yang Lianghua, formerly a senior reporter for the Chinese communist regime’s official mouthpiece People’s Daily and the chief editor of the newspaper’s international edition, then had to wait in the emergency room for a bed…


Long Queues, Higher Fees for Cremations in China Amid Recent Spike of COVID

Crematoriums across China are being overwhelmed as the country experiences a flare-up of the pandemic following the relaxing of zero-COVID rules. In Shenyang, in China’s northeastern Liaoning Province, residents say deaths have spiked since the government decided to lift lockdowns and mandatory testing. However, it is difficult to confirm that the deaths are due to COVID-19…


What’s Our Government Hiding?

Commentary 2022 is about to end, and still no answer to the question: What caused the virus that’s killed 1,096,000 Americans so far? The Washington Post asks, “What is China hiding?” The more answerable question is what is our own government hiding? House Republicans are promising that when they assume the majority in January, they…


China’s Crematoriums, Hospitals Overwhelmed as COVID Surges Across Country

A surge in COVID-19 cases in China has left crematoriums working around the clock to cope with the influx of bodies. Prices for medical supplies have skyrocketed as patients have struggled to get a bed at overwhelmed hospitals, where doctors and nurses have pushed on despite being sick with COVID-19 themselves. For many, the only…


We Are Still Locked Down

Commentary Consider just how fortunate we are to have the Twitter Files. Every few days, we are seeing dumps of documents from the operations of Twitter before Elon Musk took over. This weekend’s release was especially shocking. It revealed a close and symbiotic relationship between the company’s management and the FBI, which employs 80 people…


The Other Lab in Wuhan: The German-Chinese ‘Laboratory for Virus Research’

Commentary The “lab-leak” theory is enjoying a strong revival at the moment, thanks in part to Elon Musk having obliquely endorsed it in a Tweet while clearly point the finger at Anthony Fauci: “As for Fauci, he lied to Congress and funded gain-of-function research that killed millions of people.” This despite the fact that an article…


What Is Long COVID Really Like?

Life has been on a steady downward slope for Hannah Camp Johnson, an intelligent, once-healthy 26-year-old woman from Alabama. In August 2020, she contracted COVID-19. She experienced severe symptoms, including coughing, fever, and crippling fatigue; her oxygen levels fell, and she needed to take breathing medicine. She lost her ability to walk due to muscle…


Hong Kong Drops Curbs on Incoming Travellers, Scraps COVID-19 App

HONG KONG—Hong Kong announced that from Wednesday international passengers arriving in the territory would no longer face COVID-19 movement controls or be barred from certain venues, and that it was also scrapping a mandatory COVID-19 mobile application. The news of a further loosening of COVID-19 curbs in the global financial hub, which has trailed most…


China Won’t Report Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases in Further Shift

BEIJING—China said Wednesday that it would stop reporting asymptomatic COVID-19 cases since they’ve become impossible to track with mass testing no longer required, another step in the country’s departure from some of the world’s strictest antivirus policies. The change in reporting practices comes the week after the country announced its most significant easing yet of…