Category: Coronavirus In-Depth

Jeffrey Tucker: US May Not Know Alternatives to Lockdown, China’s Zero-COVID Strategy

What has the lockdown situation in Shanghai taught the rest of the world? Is the method and invention by a totalitarian regime, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), proving to be correct? Has public health gone too far going into politics? We discuss these questions with Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, as…


Beijing’s Hardline COVID-19 Response Pushes Shanghai to the Brink

Food donations have been left rotting on sidewalks and in trash piles even as elites in China’s wealthiest city lay struggle to ensure their next meal. Starving locals have taken to banging pots and pans from their balconies while screaming out demands for food. From the quarantine centers, videos have emerged of people being locked…


Accounts of Suffering Escape From Locked-Down Shanghai

Food donations have been left rotting on sidewalks and in trash piles even as elites in China’s wealthiest city lay struggle to ensure their next meal. Starving locals have taken to banging pots and pans from their balconies while screaming out demands for food. From the quarantine centers, videos have emerged of people being locked…


Accounts of Suffering, Starvation Mount in Locked-Down Shanghai

After four days of trying to order food online to no avail, a man of around 30 from Shanghai’s Yangpu district called the police. The sealed-in resident wanted to know if he would get fed if he charged out of his residential compound and got arrested for breaking quarantine rules. His food purchase placed through…


Forced Parent-Child Separations Fuel Outrage in Locked-Down Shanghai

Toddlers could be seen lumped in threes or fours on adult hospital beds in one ward, crying out for attention with no adults around. In another room the size of a large conference hall, long stretches of beds could be seen lined up from wall to wall, with only a few adults trying to soothe…


China CDC Conducts COVID-19 Testing at Huanan Seafood Market

Despite comprehensive testing at the Wuhan Huanan Seafood Market (HSM), the origin of the SARS-COV-2 virus remains indeterminate. Chinese researchers tested 1,380 samples collected in early 2020 from the HSM environment and some of the animals within the market and concluded that SARS-COV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, was prevalent. Seventy-three “environmental samples tested positive…


Study Finds Ivermectin ‘Did Not Prevent’ Severe COVID-19, but Doctors Alliance Calls It ‘Misleading’

A peer-reviewed study in which researchers concluded that ivermectin treatment during early COVID-19 “did not prevent” severe disease in high-risk patients has been criticized by an alliance of doctors for being “misleading.” In the open-label randomized clinical trial, also referred to as the “The I-TECH Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal on Feb. 18,…


LIVE: Global Covid Summit—Boise

A group of physicians, scientists, and frontline professionals will hold a global COVID-19 summit in Boise, Idaho, this Saturday. The Global Covid Summit will discuss insights and analyze findings regarding COVID-19 treatment and care. The Epoch Times and its sister media, NTD, will livestream the event on this page on Feb. 19, 11 a.m.–6:30 p.m….


Livestream Alert: Global Covid Summit—Boise

A group of physicians, scientists, and frontline professionals will hold a global COVID-19 summit in Boise, Idaho, this Saturday. The Global Covid Summit will discuss insights and analyze findings regarding COVID-19 treatment and care. The Epoch Times and its sister media, NTD, will livestream the event on this page on Feb. 19, 11 a.m.–6:30 p.m….


Privatization Is Not Seen as the Answer to Youth Mental Health Crisis: State Officials, Advocacy Groups

State officials and advocacy groups in South Carolina and Michigan don’t see privatizing mental health services as an answer to the youth mental health crisis COVID-19 helped create by disrupting students’ lives. They agree the solution is additional funding to increase salaries of school counselors and clinicians and hire new ones to replace many who…