Dr Anthony Fauci was accused of lying Sunday after claims he falsely denied knowing the reasons behind President Trumps’s decision to cut funding to the Chinese lab accused of releasing COVID-19.
The White House’s chief medical advisor initially resisted Trump’s order to halt taxpayer funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology in April 2020, according to an upcoming book, before telling a house committee in June that he ‘didn’t know the reason’ behind the then-president’s decision.
During last spring’s first lockdown I decamped from Toronto to a rural place that didn’t have the bandwidth for streaming services so spent my evenings watching retro movie channels on satellite TV.
Among the classics we saw, many were coming-of-age stories about the pains of youth. I re-watched ones I’d seen before, like Footloose and Grease. And I finally got around to Saturday Night Fever and Mystic Pizza.
Ontario reports 287 new COVID-19 cases; majority are now Delta variant
Ontario reported 287 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, along with 12 new deaths, as the province’s burden of known active cases hit its lowest point since last September.
Ontario reported 346 new cases on Saturday and 256 on Friday.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases now stands at 286, down slightly from 291 yesterday.
U.K. records highest daily COVID-19 cases in months amid Delta Indian variant surge
The U.K. on Saturday recorded its most new coronavirus infections since early February as the National Health Service ran a “grab a jab” initiative to further drive up vaccination rates.
Government figures showed that another 18,270 people tested positive for the virus across the U.K, the highest daily number since February 5. Over the past week, nearly 100,000 have tested positive, around 50% increase up on the week before. That has raised questions over whether lockdown restrictions will end as planned.
So… I got my 2nd shot yesterday at the local mass jab joint.
Had I known better I would have ignored my scheduled appointment and showed up much earlier as they were letting anyone in who showed up.
They only had Moderna on offer. So far so good, I ‘ve experienced none of the expected reactions I had with the Pfizer jab. Not feverish or achy etc.
And my heart hasn’t exploded.
Not yet at any rate. I’m told that’s a good sign.
I am so looking forward to that haircut.
Air Canada will soon begin testing a new feature through its mobile app that will allow travelers to digitally manage their COVID-19 test results.
In a press release, the company says its app will allow users to “safely scan, upload and verify” COVID-19 test results so they can more conveniently validate compliance with government health regulations.
We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an anti-lockdown protest staged at Confederation Square.
We don’t know if COVID-19 escaped from a lab or not. The Chinese government apparently wants to keep it that way.
This week, lawmakers in the United States called for an investigation into whether the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China was a COVID-19 super-spreader event and whether officials should have known something was amiss, given that the city seemed unusually empty and was described by some participants as a “ghost town.”
Ontario reports more than 300 new COVID-19 cases, 13 more deaths
Ontario is reporting more than 300 new COVID-19 cases and 13 more deaths on Saturday.
Provincial health officials logged 346 new coronavirus infections today, up from 256 cases on Friday but down from 355 cases reported last Saturday.
Half of Adults Infected in Latest COVID-19 Outbreak Were Fully Vaccinated: Israeli Official
About 90 percent of new COVID-19 infections in Israel were caused by the CCP virus’s Delta variant, officials said, while adding that about half of the adults infected in the recent outbreak were fully vaccinated.
Ran Balicer, who leads an expert advisory panel for the Israeli government, in announcing the finding on Friday, said that the country might end up implementing another lockdown after opening up earlier this year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The fully vaccinated individuals were inoculated with the Pfizer COVID-19 shot commonly used in Israel.
I am scheduled for my 2nd vaccine dose today.
I received an email this week informing me that rather than Pfizer (my first dose) I will be getting jabbed with Moderna.
Okey Dokey. Yea I do feel like a guinea pig.
The news of the Indian variant’s ability to get past the jabs is concerning.
I suspect we will see round three of the inoculations come fall.
Symptoms are said to be less severe for the inoculated who still become infected.
That’s all we got. Nuke China.
Hospitalizations and COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the country, but the highly contagious Delta variant stands a chance of unravelling some of the progress Canada has made, according to new national data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Thursday appealed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to consider adding Canada to its special watchlist—alongside the likes of Afghanistan, Cuba, and Iraq—in response to arrests of Canadian pastors who held services that allegedly violated COVID-19 restrictions.
The USCIRF’s special watchlist (SWL) is a list of countries where state-sanctioned violations of religious freedoms meet two of the elements of the agency’s “systematic, ongoing, and egregious” test. A secondary list, called the Countries of Particular Concern (CPC), features countries like China and Iran that meet all three criteria and whose governments engage in or tolerate “particularly severe” violations, such as torture.
It’s been a tough few weeks for Iain Stewart.
As the federal government’s point man in a heated political fight, he faces parliamentary sanction for refusing to tell MPs exactly why two scientists with links to China were fired from the National Microbiology Laboratory.
This is the stuff Eisenhower warned about.
Ontario logs fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases, 2 more deaths
Ontario is reporting fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases for the fifth day in a row and two more deaths on Friday.
Provincial health officials logged 256 new coronavirus infections, down from 296 on Thursday and 345 last Friday.
Step 2 in Ontario: What’s allowed to reopen?
Ontario is set to move into the next stage of its reopening plan on June 30, allowing small indoor gatherings to occur and personal care services to resume for the first time in months.
The province was originally scheduled to move to Step 2 on July 2, but, citing declining case counts and hospitalizations related to COVID-19, the government decided to move forward a few days earlier.
After Dr. Charles Hoffe went public with his experiences in early April of multiple First Nations patients in his village of Lytton who suffered from severe and unique Bell’s Palsy and other neurological adverse effects after receiving the Moderna vaccine, Hoffe was disciplined by BC’s Interior Health Authority only a few weeks later.
“The removal of the sequencing data is described in a new paper posted online Tuesday by Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The paper, which hasn’t been peer reviewed, says the missing data include sequences from virus samples collected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February of 2020 from patients hospitalized with or suspected of having Covid-19.”
Because the Lancet has such remarkable reach and cachet, its mistakes really matter
Right from its first issue in 1823, the Lancet was more than just an ordinary medical journal. Its founding editor, the dyspeptic surgeon and coroner Thomas Wakley, purposefully gave the journal the name of a sharp scalpel that could cut away useless, diseased tissue: he used it as a campaigning organ, to push back against injustice, bad ideas and bad practice.
