What is clear is that “breakthrough” cases are not the rare events the term implies. As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 […]
Victorian chief health officer Brett Sutton appeared close to breaking point as he abruptly walked out of the the state’s Covid briefing.
Professor Sutton gave an emotional response to a question about eight teenage girls taking their own lives in Victoria’s lockdowns, appearing on the verge of tears.
The five messages are:
1. The virus is not spread asymptomatically. That is, only sick people give it to other people.
2. We should stop testing symptomless people. That just generates false positives – creating extra ‘cases’ and extra concerns. ‘There shouldn’t be a single person on Earth that should undergo an asymptomatic test […]
by Augusto Zimmermann – 24th July 2021
One of the most remarkable characteristics of the Australian Constitution is its express limitation on governmental powers. In drafting the Constitution, the framers sought to design an instrument of government intended to distribute and limit the powers of the State. This distribution and […]
Making children wear masks in the classroom can stunt language skills and exacerbate anxiety, a health report commissioned by the Irish government has found.
The Health Information and Quality Authority’s report published in March informed Dublin’s decision not to mandate […]
The idea of defeating Covid-19 by reaching herd immunity through mass vaccination is “mythical” because the Delta variant means it will be impossible to eliminate coronavirus, the head of the UK’s vaccines watchdog has said.
Andrew Pollard, chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), suggested to MPs […]
New research has suggested boys are 14 times more likely to be struck down with a rare heart complication called myocarditis.
The data, from the US, will likely fuel an already fierce debate over Britain’s decision to press ahead with inoculating all 16 and 17-year-olds.
Last week, the Government’s advisory panel ruled older teenagers should be given […]
An alarming percentage of children and adolescents are experiencing a global-wide mental crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic according to a new University of Calgary study published in the medical journal JAMA Pediatrics.
“Estimates show that one in four youth globally are experiencing clinically elevated depression symptoms while one in five have clinically elevated anxiety symptoms,” says […]
Beginning in March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and response, which included physical distancing and stay-at-home orders, disrupted daily life in the United States. Compared with the rate in 2019, a 31% increase in the proportion of mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits occurred among adolescents aged 12-17 years in 2020 (1). […]
