MUST KNOWs PRIORITY 1 news (COVID and non-COVID related):
2)Biden seeks $33B for Ukraine, signaling long-term commitment
3)Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids
4)We may have damaged the immune systems of our children with lock downs: First US Child May Have Died During Hepatitis Outbreak
6)Court observers believe Chief Justice Roberts just signaled that abortion rights could be overturned
7)FBI Conducted Potentially Millions of Searches of Americans’ Data Last Year, Report Says
8)Putin Really May Break the Nuclear Taboo in Ukraine
9)U.S. Seeks ‘Urgent’ Data on Covid Relapses After Using Pfizer’s Drug
10)BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants omicron
11)Political stakes high as Beijing responds to virus outbreak
13)Watch: Biden's New 'Disinfo' Queen Goes Full 'Libs Of TikTok'
PRIORITY 2 news (COVID and non- COVID related)
1)Most Voters Still See Biden as Weaker Commander-in-Chief
2)Sage Steele sues ESPN and Disney for treatment following her comments on vaccine mandates, Obama
3)Are We in the Middle of an Invisible COVID Wave?
5)COVID-19: CDC VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW TO ENABLE CORRUPTION OF FATALITY-REPORTING DATA
6)Turkey Ready to Lift All COVID-19 Measures, Erdogan Says
8) Chip Roy and his defense of the border, huge praise
9)Twenty Steps to End the COVID Madness
10)Elon Musk: “Democratic Party Has Been Hijacked by Extremists”
11)CDC: Bird flu case reported in chicken industry worker
12)Paxlovid: Rapid Relapse of Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Following Early Suppression with Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir/Paxlovid
13)Key Inflation Rate Surges to 6.6%, Highest Since 1982
14)UK Court of Appeal to Review ‘Unduly Lenient’ Sentences of Five Rape Gang Predators
15)Study Reveals Pandemic Stress Led to Big Jump in Academic Cheating
PRIORITY 3 News (COVID and non- COVID related):
1)Oregon Launches Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Passport App
2)Moderna asks FDA to authorize Covid-19 vaccine for young kids
4)Canadian gov’t has suspended over 2,500 employees who refuse to reveal COVID vaccine status
5)Canadian press still running with the dirty unvaccinated narrative
6)Troops allege military’s COVID vaccine mandate is a ‘religious purge’
7)Poultry producers on edge as avian flu sweeps through Alberta farms
8)Is crypto just one big Ponzi scheme?
10)Planned Parenthood won’t notify parents if their child becomes a sex crime victim
11)Delta to begin paying flight attendants during boarding
12)First human case of H3N8 avian flu has been detected in China. Here’s what we know
13)Boeing’s Low-Ball Defense Bidding Has Come Back to Bite Them
15)Political Paternalism, Not Free Markets, Cause Economic Shocks
16)Insomnia, addiction, depression: The dark side of life trading crypto
17)Putin could declare World War III within days, says UK defence secretary
18)Ex-CDC Chief Says Trump Administration Silenced Him on COVID
19)Manchin’s moves leave Democrats doubting their agenda will pass
20)Iran may attack Israel directly, Nasrallah warns in Quds Day speech
Paul, my resident Twitter troll (see this post: https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front-d2c) just shared this BMJ observational study, and I’d be curious to get your thoughts on it:
• “New study shows fewer people die from covid-19 in better vaccinated communities” (https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/new-study-shows-fewer-people-die-from-covid-19-in-better-vaccinated-communities/)
Since this comes from the British Medical Journal and they have been more balanced thanks largely to Peter Doshi, I didn’t dismiss it out of hand, but I suspect the study was rigged to deliver a particular outcome. I notice they say “fewer people die from COVID-19,” but that doesn't mean they’re not dying from other issues like, say, myocarditis. Someone else noticed the end date is December 2021, prior to the large-scale booster rollout, which is associated with a larger death toll than just one- or two-jab victims.
I haven’t had a chance to investigate but would be curious to get your thoughts if you have time to take a look. Thanks, Paul!
Great compilation! It grieved me to read the article, "Moderna seeks to be 1st with COVID shots for littlest kids." So many parents just can't wait to get their babies jabbed. But there was good (hopeful?) news at the end ~ the jab rates for children were lower than I expected:
"Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 have had two vaccinations, and 58% of those ages 12 to 17."