COVID-19
Omicron Variant Subsides by Whopping 80%
The CDC’s data reveals that “the Delta variant hasn’t been seen in weeks” writes National Review. The good news is that new cases are “now down 80 percent from the early January peak. But judging from masking – and vaccination – policy decisions from Washington, D.C., to New York City to Canada, you would think the Omicron variant was still raging out of control” writes National Review.
Charting done by the New York Times’s seven-day average suggests new cases nationwide peaked on January 14 at 806,000. “Mondays tend to bring spikes, likely reflecting a backlog of delayed reports from the weekend. On January 3, the country reported more than 1 million new cases, and on January 10, the country reported more than 1.4 million new cases” Reports National Review.
The good news, as of Monday, the country reported about 206,000 new cases, and the seven-day average of daily new cases dropped to just below 155,000. “That comes out to an 80 percent drop in a month and puts the country back to the new-case levels of the week before Christmas.”
National Review lays out some of the policies that are unnecessary in light of the Omicron variant’s huge decrease:
The Omicron wave coming to its end should be a factor in all of the current pandemic policy decisions — including D.C.’s decision to keep masks on kids in schools indefinitely, the Department of Homeland Security’s hunt for “Covid-19 disinformation,” and the city of New York firing more than 1,400 workers for refusing to get vaccinated. Since there’s no reason to think that the Omicron wave is passing differently in Canada, its gradual end ought to be a factor in Justin Trudeau’s insistence that all Canadian truckers must get vaccinated.
COVID-19
Former Harvard medical professor says he was fired for opposing Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates
“My hope is that someday, Harvard will find its way back to academic freedom and independence.” That is the heartfelt message from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a former Harvard University professor of medicine since 2003, who recently announced publicly he was fired for “clinging to the truth” in his opposition to Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Kulldorff posted the news on social media alongside an essay published in the City Journal last week. The epidemiologist and biostatistician also spoke with National Review about the incident. Kulldorff says he was fired by the Harvard-affiliated Mass General Brigham hospital system and put on a leave of absence by Harvard Medical School in November 2021 over his stance on Covid.
Nearly two years later, in October 2023, his leave of absence was terminated as a matter of policy, marking the end of his time at the university. Harvard severed ties with Kulldorff “all on their initiative,” he said.
The history of the medical professional’s public stance on Covid-19 vaccines and mandates is detailed by National Review:
Censorship and rejection led Kulldorff to co-author the Great Barrington Declaration in October 2020 alongside Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University. Together, the three public-health scientists argued for limited and targeted Covid-19 restrictions that “protect the elderly, while letting children and young adults live close to normal lives,” as Kulldorff put it in his essay.
“The declaration made clear that no scientific consensus existed for school closures and many other lockdown measures. In response, though, the attacks intensified—and even grew slanderous,” he wrote, naming former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins as the one who ordered a “devastating published takedown” of the declaration.
Testifying before Congress in January, Collins reaffirmed his previous statements attacking the Great Barrington Declaration.
Despite the coordinated effort against it, the document has over 939,000 signatures in favor of age-based focused protection.
The Great Barrington Declaration’s authors, who advocated the quick reopening of schools, have been vindicated by recent studies that confirm pandemic-era school closures were, in fact, detrimental to student learning. The data show that students from third through eighth grade who spent most of the 2020–21 school year in remote learning fell more than half a grade behind in math scores on average, while those who attended school in person dropped a little over a third of a grade, according to a New York Times review of existing studies. In addition to learning losses, school closures did very little to stop the spread of Covid, studies show.
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xsnake
February 15, 2022 at 9:45 pm
In Maine…1,924 cases last Saturday…..second highest number since December 10th…..which was a bit over two thousand. So….it’s not going away everywhere.
Profx
February 16, 2022 at 10:24 am
The hunt for disinformation should start with taking a look at The View, CNN, MSNBC and similar sources. Personally, I prefer to follow the Science rather than the Politics.
Stephane
February 18, 2022 at 6:05 pm
This “variant” is ONLY A FUCKING COLD!
Just as COVID is simply a FUCKING COLD!
Now, the “variant” is the introduction of a Spike Protein which action will soon be revealed that it DESTROYS the basic immune system in human!
To boost it all, there is also a “spike protein” in the boosters, and all the shots they want you to take. To make sure that 2 BILLION people will die of every simple little crap that floats around.
CHECK ME ON THAT, DAMNIT!