Category: Expert View

UK Expert Warns Against Overinterpreting COVID-19 Data

A British medical expert has said that official data are prone to be overinterpreted as it does not distinguish between people who are hospitalised for COVID-19-related illnesses and those who receive medical care for other reasons but then test positive. Chris Hopson, CEO at NHS Providers, a membership organisation for NHS (National Health Service) trusts…


New Data on Omicron Offer ‘Glimmer of Christmas Hope’: UK Health Official

New studies showing the Omicron coronavirus variant may be up to 70 percent less likely to lead to hospitalisation offer a “glimmer of Christmas hope,” a senior UK health official has said. But UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Chief Executive Dr. Jenny Harries refused to retract her earlier statement that Omicron could be the most…


Omicron Symptoms ‘Feel Much More Like Common Cold’: UK Scientist

The symptoms of Omicron positive cases “feel much more like the common cold,” a British scientist said on Thursday as he warned that half of the people with cold-like symptoms now have COVID-19. Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and the lead scientist on the ZOE COVID Study app, blasted the…


Lockdowns Never Prevent Infection, Only Prolong Pandemic: UK Professor

Lockdowns “never ultimately prevent infection” and only serve to flatten the curve and thereby prolong the epidemic, a British medical professor has warned. Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, said on Tuesday that there is no need for a lockdown in the UK as the increase in COVID-19 cases appears…


EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ben Carson on Therapeutics, Pandemic Politics, and the Dangers of Critical Race Theory

This episode will premiere at 7 p.m. ET on Dec. 18th. If you have trouble seeing the video at premiere time, please refresh the page. See you there!               “We should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic,” says Dr. Ben Carson, meaning not just vaccines…


[Premiering 12/18 at 7pm ET] EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Ben Carson on Therapeutics, Pandemic Politics, and the Dangers of Critical Race Theory

“We should be using every tool available to us to fight the pandemic,” says Dr. Ben Carson, which means not just vaccines and monoclonal antibodies but also therapeutics like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin. “Let’s look at all of these things. … And let’s throw the politics out.” In this exclusive interview with Dr. Ben Carson, the…


Dr. Steven Templeton: How Media Frenzy and COVID Panic Made America Obsessively Risk Averse and Germophobic

America has a “safety culture problem,” says immunologist Dr. Steven Templeton. “We want to mitigate risk to the point where there’s no risk.” The pandemic response—from harsh lockdowns to school closures—has been characterized by a “self-destructive” overreaction, says Templeton, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. And the…


Pandemic Could Be Solved Quickly If Politics Thrown Out: Dr. Ben Carson

Dr. Ben Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work in 2008, the highest civilian award in the nation. He retired in 2013 and ran for the presidency in 2016. Later he served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration. “We’ve been having…


NIH Director Says Omicron Unlikely the Last Variant of COVID-19

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that Omicron is likely not the last variant that will emerge from the original coronavirus. “It’s certainly possible that this is not the last emerging variant that will attract a lot of attention and a lot of concern,” Dr. Francis Collins said in an interview…


COVID-19 a Pandemic of Fear ‘Manufactured’ by Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of fear, manufactured by individuals who were in the nominal positions of authority as the virus began to spread across the globe last year, according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch. In an appearance on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program, Risch, an epidemiology professor at the Yale School of…