Category: Approaches of different countries
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Sir Peter Vallance: Boosters every four months cannot continue
In this March 30, 2022 article for The Telegraph, Sarah Knapton reports on a recent warning from UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance. Speaking at the Science and Technology Select Committee, Vallance said that the rollout of COVID boosters every four months should not continue. He said that the country needs to shift to…
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It’s time to rethink COVID restrictions
In this March 29, 2022 article Shira Doron, Westyn Branch-Elliman, and Elissa Perkins for The Washington Post criticized the use of “predetermined thresholds for public health policy”. According to the authors, the pandemic has changed so fast that “[B]y the time preset measures are triggered, they are often out of date”. The authors cite the…
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CDC lifts cruise travel restrictions, says travelers can make their own risk assessment
After two years of warning travelers about COVID-19 infections linked to cruise ships, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has decided to remove its “cruise ship travel health notice”, saying that travelers can now make their own risk assessments when choosing to go on a cruise. The report on this was written…
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Lawsuit challenging vaccine mandates in Indonesia filed
In this March 25, 2022 article for The Daily Expose, Rhonda Wilson reports on the lawsuit filed last March 15, 2022 against Indonesian President Joko Widodo and the Minister of Health. The lawsuit, filed by plaintiffs Ted Hilbert and Fatoni Rahman, seeks to end vaccination as a condition for travel. The full details about the…
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African experience proves countries “mishandled” COVID
In this March 23, 2022 article for The New York Times, Stephanie Nolen looks at COVID in Africa and tries to answer the question: Why is COVID not causing a large number of deaths in Africa compared to other high-income countries? Nolen explores some of the possible reasons for Africa’s low COVID deaths: a young…
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South Korea continues to relax COVID restrictions despite experiencing highest per-person infection rates in the world
In this March 17, 2022 article, Victoria Kim and John Yoon report on the massive turnaround in how South Korea is dealing with its current surge in cases. The report quoted Lee Soo-won, a business owner from central Seoul who said, “Everyone used to be hush-hush about getting infected like you were causing a nuisance…Now…
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Canadian Health Official Clarified They Did Not Mandate Vaccination, Workplaces Did
In a March 17, 2022 post in CPAC (The Cable Public Affairs Channel, is Canada’s only privately owned, commercial-free, not-for-profit, bilingual TV service, dedicated to around the clock coverage of Parliament, politics, and public affairs) YouTube Channel, Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, provides an update on the COVID-19 situation in the…
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Sen. Rand Paul files amendment to prevent rise of another pandemic “dictator in chief”
The following opinion article was written by Sen. Rand Paul and was published by Fox News last March 14, 2022. Sen. Paul explains his thought process for introducing an amendment that seeks to reorganize the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The amendment would eliminate Dr. Anthony Fauci’s position and would divide the…
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UK the 11th Country to Remove COVID-19 Travel Restrictions
All COVID-19 travel restrictions will be removed in the UK; this announcement was published on the official UK Gov website on March 14, 2022. According to the news, the UK government will remove the remaining COVID-19 international travel restrictions for all passengers from 4 am Friday, March 18, 2022. From 4 am on March 18,…
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China goes back into lockdowns in quest for the mythical zero COVID
51 million Chinese are once again locked down after a new surge in cases, which according to Chinese officials, was caused by B.2, also known as “stealth Omicron”. The report on this was written by Eva Fu and was published by The Epoch Times last March 14, 2022. According to the report, Shenzhen, Dongguan City,…
