Year: 2020
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Belgian doctors call for the end of all lockdowns
In an open letter published by Docs4OpenDebate, Belgian doctors call on Belgian authorities to “be independently and critically informed in the decision-making process and in the compulsory implementation of corona-measures”. The doctors said that much of the policies being implemented in the country today no longer have a medical justification, and the short-term and long-term…
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Mark Woolhouse: We must follow the Swedish model
In this article for The Telegraph, Mark Woolhouse, chair of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and member of the UK’s SPI-M and Scotland’s COVID-19 Advisory Group, slams the government’s refusal to lift lockdowns. He says, “It is profoundly disappointing that six months into this pandemic, having rejected every alternative proposal, we…
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New Study: Lockdowns ten times more deadly than SARS-CoV-2
A groundbreaking new study by Revolver News concludes that COVID lockdowns are ten times more deadly than the actual virus, in terms of the years of life lost by American citizens. The study utilizes economic studies on the health impacts of unemployment in calculating how many years of will have been lost due to lockdowns…
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China will focus vaccination on lockdown areas only
Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese CDC), told CNN that not everyone in China will need to get vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. He says the country has survived the impact of COVID-19 many times since it appeared in Wuhan. Any potential vaccine acquired or developed by the country will…
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It is time to stop our continued self-destruction
In this article for The Telegraph, Dr. Uri Gavish, Prof. Udi Qimron, Prof. Eyal Shahar, Dr. Ifat Abadi-Korek, and Prof. Michael Levitt, five experts in various fields, tells us that it is time to end the panic and our road to self-destruction due to government policies that are based on fear, not science. The authors…
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How COVID-19 changed clinical medicine
In this article was written by Professor Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson of the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford. In it, Heneghan and Jefferson details how clinical medicine has been changed by the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Patient-centricity and evidence-based medicine (EBM), two of the important evolutions in clinical medicine have been completely disregarded…
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Will evidence-based medicine be another casualty of COVID-19?
The following editorial article by Professor Roger Watson and Dr. Niall McCrae looks at some of the evidences for and against some of the COVID-19 policies imposed in recent months. The authors say that fast-tracked publication of scientific studies during this time of crisis is understandable but it has been misused and has led to…
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CDC Update: 75% of children who died from COVID had underlying diseases
In a new report published by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last September 18, 2020, it explored the data on COVID-associated deaths among children below 21 years. The report covered the period between February 12 to July 31, 2020. The report showed that of the 190,000 SARS-CoV-2 associated deaths in the…
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New Study: All children in UK who died of COVID-19 were already seriously ill
A new study published by the British Medical Journal last August 2020 confirms that COVID-19 has relatively little impact on healthy children. The study, led by Liverpool University looked at 260 hospitals in England, Scotland, and Wales during the period of January 17 to July 3, 2020. The researchers discovered that 651 patients below 19…
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Hydroxychloroquine can dramatically ease the COVID-19 crisis
Last September 17, 2020, the Concerned Doctors and Citizens in the Philippines (CDC-PH) held a press conference entitled Flatten The Fear. Their goal? To call for the end of all lockdowns and the implementation of a national protocol for early treatment of patients with COVID-like symptoms. [See videos below if you wish to understand the…
