The media and some politicians are once again focussing on case numbers when dealing with COVID-19, despite the fact that public health officials believe hospitalizations and ICU capacity is more important to focus on.
If the focus is on case numbers again, it’s important to keep things in perspective.
More than a year removed from Biden’s promise to eradicate COVID, cases of the virus are spiking once again, and Biden has even enacted a new travel ban to eight African countries amid fear that the new “Omicron” variant could lead to another wave of cases. Biden, then, has not ended the pandemic, nor has his administration implemented a plan to stop the pandemic like he promised.
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Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health and Dr. Kieran Moore, Chief Medical Officer of Health issued the following statement:
“Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria. Ottawa Public Health is conducting case and contact management and the patients are in isolation.
The best defence against the Omicron variant is stopping it at our border. In addition to the measures recently announced, we continue to urge the federal government to take the necessary steps to mandate point-of-arrival testing for all travellers irrespective of where they’re coming from to further protect against the spread of this new variant.
Why are we rushing to vaccinate little kids against a virus that doesn’t make them sick?
Why do legacy media reports on this topic look like infomercials for pharmaceutical companies?
While having no long-term data on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, and already a fairly good amount of evidence that the vaccine, despite coming with only small risks, still is more likely to harm a child than COVID-19, or its variants, ever was.
“Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa.”
Due to an increase in coronavirus cases, the Czech government declared a state of emergency for 30 days, local TV channel reported Thursday.
From Dec. 1, wearing a face mask will once again be mandatory in enclosed spaces; a digital certificate proving vaccination or recovery from the coronavirus must be shown to enter restaurants, cinemas and hotels; and even inoculated people must have a negative test to visit hospitals, elderly care homes, sports events and bars and discos.
The Italian Council of Ministers voted on Wednesday to reduce the validity of the COVID pass from 12 to nine months and only allow the vaccinated or those who have recovered from the virus to access bars, restaurants, and other leisure facilities.
Prof Peter Openshaw, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said the current number of cases and deaths rates were unacceptable, and reiterated the importance of measures such as working from home and mask wearing.
Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor-designate, said Wednesday that the Covid situation was dire and that the country would further push its forced jab campaign, claiming that “vaccination is the way out of this pandemic.”
Currently under the emergency powers, vaccine segregation measures have been implemented, and unvaccinated citizens are barred from participating in the fullness of public life. Unvaccinated Ontarians are not allowed to eat in restaurants, visit loved ones in hospitals in most cases, or utilize gyms.
Now that the cold weather has hit and people are moving inside, many doctors and scientists are urging Canadians not only to resist getting complacent about wearing masks to protect against COVID-19 — but also to take a closer look at whether that cloth mask is keeping you and others as safe as possible.
British experts have sounded the alarm over a new Covid variant believed to have emerged in Botswana that is the most mutated version of the virus yet.
Only 10 cases of the strain, which could eventually be named ‘Nu’, have been detected so far.
But it has already been spotted in three countries, suggesting the variant is more widespread.
It carries 32 mutations, many of which suggest it is highly transmissible and vaccine-resistant, and has more alterations to its spike protein than any other variant.
The Public Health Agency of Canada has stated that it is “probably going to be quite difficult” to convince Canadians to vaccine their young children.
The New York Times served up some COVID-19-related Thanksgiving advice that, if anyone follows it, could lead to the kids’ table emptying out fast after they gobble their food.
Bill Gates has warned governments to prepare for smallpox terror attacks and future pandemics by investing billions into research and development. Bill Gates has raised alarms with critics by suggesting that billions of dollars be invested into a global pandemic task force running “germ games” to prepare for future outbreaks or biological attacks. Meanwhile, one of the most deadly Smallpox virus samples in the world has been accidentally found at a Merck vaccine facility while cleaning. The virus is considered so deadly that only two labs in the world are authorized to store samples of it, one in Russia and the other at the CDC in Atlanta.
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St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital has diverted at least two COVID-19 patients to a London hospital due to dire lack of capacity to care for them, a situation driven by a case surge that’s among the worst in the province.
In a couple days they will retract the ‘unvaccinated surge’ claim.
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Some communities are particularly affected by ecological grief, said Cunsolo, including Indigenous people, farmers and fishers. “People who are really connected closely to the environment for livelihoods and culture,” she said.
