“China eats weird animals disease”

Auditors from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector-General (OIG) are probing whether National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials properly managed research grants that ended up partially funding controversial “gain-of-function” research by China’s Wuhan lab.

“The OIG has previously identified NIH’s oversight of grants to foreign applicants as a potential risk to [HHS] meeting program goals and the appropriate use of federal funds,” the OIG said Tuesday in an update of its workplan.

Cuomo’s directive to send elderly people with COVID-19 into nursing homes led to a spike in deaths, reports the non-profit Empire Center for Public Policy. The report tied “several hundred and possibly more than 1,000” fatalities to the decision, which was ordered on March 25, 2020 and rescinded less than two months later on May 10th.

The variants are going to keep on circulating without another vaccine

I am in uncharted waters. Next week, it will be one year since I had my first jab; I got my second in August 2020. I was on the AstraZeneca trial – I still am, until the end of this month – so I got vaccinated before it was cool. There’s almost no data on whether people who had the vaccine a year ago are still protected, for the simple reason that almost nobody had had the vaccine a year ago.

CALGARY — The pastor of a southeast Calgary church has been arrested after allegedly violating a court order and holding a service on the weekend flouting pandemic-related public health orders.

Calgary Police Service and Alberta Health Services officials say Monday’s arrest of Tim Stephens, the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, followed “repeated calls from concerned citizens regarding church services.”

Ontario is reporting fewer than 300 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since mid-September.

Provincial health officials logged 296 new COVID-19 cases today, down from 447 on Monday and 530 on Sunday.

Not all experts keen on federal guidance for Canadians fully vaccinated against COVID-19

As provinces accelerate their efforts to get their populations fully vaccinated against COVID-19, there are calls for the federal government to issue clear guidance on what people can do once they receive both shots.

Some politicians and experts have said Ottawa should provide a framework spelling out which behaviours are considered safe for vaccinated adults, similar to what was issued by the U.S.-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but opinion is divided on whether it’s a good idea.

COVID shutdowns championed by U.S. governors and D.C. bureaucrats are responsible for destroying nearly 40% of small businesses since the virus was unleashed on the world—and we know now that it was for little to no damned good reason. A study by the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences revealed recently that shutdown orders made little to no difference in COVID’s impact. ..