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Might hydrogen peroxide reduce the hospitalization rate and complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection? – NCBI

To the Editor—The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus responsible for COVID-19, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The current pandemic appears to be characterized by human-to-human transmission; it occurs through cough, sneeze, droplet inhalation, and direct contact of hands with mouth, nose, and eyes. The virus resides in the mucous membranes and it is transmitted through the saliva and the respiratory droplets. Although prevention of person-to-person transmission is the key to limiting the pandemic, so far, little attention has been given to the events taking place immediately after the onset of the first symptoms.

http://archive.today/2020.07.31-022930/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308628/

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Lockdowns Don’t Work – The Witherspoon Institute

Many policies provide public-health benefits in pandemics, such as making facemasks mandatory, cancelling school, and banning large assemblies and long-distance travel. But ordering people to cower in their homes, harassing people for having playdates in the park, and ordering small businesses to close regardless of their hygienic procedures has no demonstrated effectiveness.

Lockdowns Don’t Work
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The Swedish experiment looks like it’s paying off – The Spectator

As the world went into lockdown, Sweden opted for a different approach to tackling coronavirus: cities, schools and restaurants have remained open. This was judged by critics to be utterly foolish: it would allow the virus to spread much faster than elsewhere, we were told, leading to tens of thousands of deaths.

I’m happy to say that those fears haven’t materialised.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-swedish-experiment-looks-like-it-s-paying-off

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I’m in ghost town Madrid, witnessing a brutal lockdown enforcement. Is it even constitutional? – RT

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/486350-spain-tough-rules-covid-19-lockdown/

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Problems with PHE’s Covid-19 tests raise serious questions over UK’s coronavirus response – The Telegraph

A memo sent by PHE’s senior lab team flags up several concerns about the tests, despite the fact hundreds of thousands have been carried out

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/21/problems-phes-covid-19-tests-raise-serious-questions-uks-coronavirus/

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The hospital I work in is so quiet – MumsNet

Forum posts apparently show NHS workers and patients discussing the empty UK hospitals. Screenshot below.

https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3886452-The-hospital-I-work-in-is-so-quiet

Go to forum

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National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan – The Rockefeller Foundation

The industry of mass-testing the population at least twice per month was laid out in the National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan by The Rockefeller Foundation, published in April 2020.

Note: See embedded video below for commentary from Fiona Marie Flanagan and Dave Cullen.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200421120351/https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/national-covid-19-testing-action-plan/

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Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told Part 2 – Off-Guardian

Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told – Part 2
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Rapid response to: Face masks for the public during the covid-19 crisis – BMJ

In conclusion, as opposed to Greenhalgh et al., we believe that the context of the current covid-19 pandemic is very different from that of the “parachutes for jumping out of aeroplanes”,[7] in which the dynamics of harm and prevention are easy to define and even to quantify without the need of research studies. It is necessary to quantify the complex interactions that may well be operating between positive and negative effects of wearing surgical masks at population level. It is not time to act without evidence.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1435/rr-40

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A disproportionate interference with rights and freedoms: Coronavirus regulations and the ECHR

The lockdown measures imposed by the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations are some of the most extreme restrictions on fundamental freedoms imposed in the modern era. They are a disproportionate interference with the rights and freedoms protected by the European Convention on Human Rights and therefore unlawful.

This is an executive summary of a more in-depth article which is available from the link below. Inevitably, the summary simplifies the detailed arguments and considerations.

Read the article in full: A disproportionate interference with rights and freedoms: Coronavirus Regulations and the ECHR

A disproportionate interference with rights and freedoms: Coronavirus regulations and the ECHR
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Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines – Science Magazine

A prominent pediatrician and medical researcher in the Philippines has been indicted over the failed—and many say premature—introduction of Dengvaxia, a vaccine against dengue that was yanked from the Philippine market in 2017 because of safety issues. If convicted of accusations leveled at her by the national Department of Justice (DOJ), Rose Capeding, 63, former head of the dengue department of the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) here, could face up to 48 years in prison.

…Halstead’s concerns proved valid. In November 2017, Sanofi Pasteur announced that the vaccine could indeed exacerbate cases of dengue in children never previously infected, and the Philippines halted the campaign immediately. (WHO now recommends the vaccine be used only after a test to be sure children have had at least one brush with dengue.)

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/dengue-vaccine-fiasco-leads-criminal-charges-researcher-philippines

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Lockdown is the world’s biggest psychological experiment – and we will pay the price – World Economic Forum

Currently, an estimated 2.6 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – is living under some kind of lockdown or quarantine. This is arguably the largest psychological experiment ever conducted.

Unfortunately, we already have a good idea of its results

In short, and perhaps unsurprisingly, people who are quarantined are very likely to develop a wide range of symptoms of psychological stress and disorder, including low mood, insomnia, stress, anxiety, anger, irritability, emotional exhaustion, depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Low mood and irritability specifically stand out as being very common, the study notes.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/this-is-the-psychological-side-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-that-were-ignoring/

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The Corona Simulation Machine: Why the Inventor of The “Corona Test” Would Have Warned Us Not To Use It To Detect A Virus

We’ve been hijacked by our technologies, but left illiterate about what they actually mean. In this case, I am in the rare position of having known, spent time with, and interviewed the inventor of the method used in the presently available Covid-19 tests, which is called PCR, (Polymerase Chain Reaction.)

https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/
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The excess burden of death from coronavirus COVID-19 is closer to a month than to a year – Prof. Michael Levitt

The Western World has been encouraged by their lack of responsibility coupled with uncontrolled media and academic errors to commit suicide for an excess burden of death of one month. 

https://medium.com/@michael.levitt/the-excess-burden-of-death-from-coronavirus-covid-19-is-closer-to-a-month-than-to-a-year-83fca74455b4

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Expert argues Britain’s crisis peaked before lockdown; fatality rate could be as low as 0.1% – Daily Mail

Oxford University Professor Carl Heneghan: UK’s outbreak peaked in March before lockdown but ministers had ‘lost sight’ of the scientific evidence and panicked.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235979/UKs-coronavirus-crisis-peaked-lockdown-Expert-argues-draconian-measures-unnecessary.html

See coverage from 21st Century Wire: REVEALED: UK Ministers Knew Crisis Had Peaked Before Lockdown, But Panicked Anyway

See videos from Andrew Mather of who has been showing this by analysing WHO reports.

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Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis Update: 4.17.20 | Episode 4

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NHS using ‘flawed’ COVID-19 test – missing 25% of positives – OpenDemocracy

NHS laboratories are using a flawed test for coronavirus, according to a leaked Public Health England document seen by openDemocracy. Experts warn that the test fails to detect up to 25% of positive COVID-19 results.

Although the current test is known to be inconsistent, NHS labs are nonetheless being advised to continue using it, while an urgent “migration” or shift to a commercially available test takes place.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exclusive-nhs-using-flawed-covid-19-test-missing-25-of-positives/

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Coronavirus: Hunger trumps fear in South Africa – Sky News

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Vets would not manage Covid-19 this way – BMJ

There needs to be a more effective and sustainable strategy to manage Covid-19 than the current economically ruinous policy, argue vets Dick Sibley and Joe Brownlie.

https://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/186/14/462.full

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NHS told to expect ‘huge number’ of legal challenges after pandemic – HSJ

Specialist lawyers say legal challenges against CCGs and providers inevitable

Risks around deprivation of liberty, neglect, safeguarding, and potential gross negligence manslaughter

https://www.hsj.co.uk/coronavirus/nhs-told-to-expect-huge-number-of-legal-challenges-after-pandemic/7027448.article