#Pandemic prevention strategies need to pivot away from a focus on Asia's wet markets in favour of multi-pronged #AvianInfluenza control, starting on farms and in bird supply chains. New #research reveals why.
#BirdFlu #H9N2 #OneHealth
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Karl Polanyi, one of the twentieth century’s most insightful and influential socialist thinkers, passed away exactly 60 years ago. His masterpiece, The Great Transformation, remains the most powerful critique yet produced of market liberalism — the belief that societies can and…

Strong commentary here from David Bell –– we agree: there is an urgent imperative to reform the crumbling, conflicted and corrupted public health artifice that is the World Health Organization (WHO).

'Moreover, many of the points in the proposed treaty are based on the precedents from the Covid…

.Martin Kulldorff on the disaster of lockdowns:

'Some of the worst effects of lockdown won’t actually show up in mortality statistics today. But they will show up in the social, financial and physical health of children tomorrow and in the future.'
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Thanks to Sunetra Gupta to remind us that the hypothesis that 2020 spring lockdowns in Europe were highly effective was conditioned to the fact that there would be a big deadly outbreak in summer 2020 when measures were released, which was not the case.
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'Nowhere has the injustice of lockdowns been more apparent than in what they have required of children.'

Read Sunetra Gupta's comments piece here in the The Telegraph.

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The other night Freddie Sayers, Sunetra Gupta, Johan Anderberg and myself got together to discuss the UK Covid inquiry — and why it’s failing to provide the answers we deserve. If you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up!
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Socio-economic impacts on employment and social assistance in Buenos Aires

“The state implemented a wide range of policies and social assistance to minimise social costs of the pandemic, however many forms of social assistance were partial and insufficient.”

“Many categories of…

UnHerd LIVE - With Sunetra Gupta Thomas Fazi & Johan Anderberg twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨New paper: The Three Rs of Fear Messaging in a Global Pandemic: Recommendations, Ramifications and Remediation

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Was it right to use fear messaging in the covid pandemic?🧐

TY Laura Dodsworth Dr Gemma Ahearne SFHEA Robert Dingwall 🎯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 Rejoin Professor Lucy Easthope Dr. Michael B. Riordan

Labour MP tells parliament: the UK should have followed Sweden’s light touch pandemic response 👀

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Socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 suppression measures – the case of Guinea-Bissau - The Impacts of measures taken by the authorities.

“Before Covid-19 there was poverty and extreme poverty. When Covid-19 arrived, Africa was already working to lift 400 million people out of…

Please sign this important petition launched by Pan-African Epidemic/Pandemic WorkingGroup on the WHO treaty:
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An important document, and statement.

The Swedish Public Health Agency published a report today on how the Covid-19 pandemic and infection control measures impacted 'the living conditions, lifestyle and health of children and young people.'
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The socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 lockdown policies in Argentina - Fragile state

“These are numbers that hurt a lot.”

“At the beginning of the pandemic, the sovereign debt amounted to $311 billion USD, which included a $57bUSD loan by the IMF (INDEC, 2020.).”

“Borrowing…

4.3 million children now live in poverty. An increase of 100,000 children in just 12 months.

Child poverty is class war and discriminatory. No party unwilling to commit to fixing this, is fit to govern.

My latest 👇🏾

Socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 suppression measures – the case of Guinea-Bissau - Measures taken by the authorities.

“On the Government side the creation of an Inter-ministerial Committee was one of the first measures, which was quickly replaced by a High Commission for the…

. Ben has done a great service making the developed world's mortality statistics so readily and freely available to the public. And the lesson they tell is that lockdowns killed. Thank you, Ben!

On this day in COVID history, April 3, 2020:

U.S. Latinos among hardest hit by pay cuts, job losses due to coronavirus

Source: Pew

#COVID #OnThisDay

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The British Covid inquiry was supposed to uncover and debate the mistakes made by the government during the pandemic years. And yet, many of the figures now proven to have been voicing legitimate concerns about lockdowns, vaccine mandates and the country’s future post-Covid were…