Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) have issued a joint declaration promoting a global standard on proof of vaccination for international travel and calling for the establishment of “global digital health networks” that build on existing digital COVID-19 vaccine passport schemes.
The joint statement followed the conclusion of the G20 summit held in Bali, Indonesia, where leaders discussed global challenges and coordinating policies in response, including to future pandemics.
WE ALL know the story of the emperor’s new clothes and the fact that it was a small child, rather than the courtiers and sycophants, who blurted out the truth that the emperor, in fact, was wearing nothing at all.
That story by Hans Christian Andersen was published in 1837 and now, nearly 200 years later, its message is more relevant than ever. For while politicians, scientists and supposedly learned people everywhere were ordering us into lockdowns, pushing us to take ever more vaccines and tests, to sanitise our hands at every turn and to wear masks, it was the ordinary people who saw through all this and rebelled.
Kamil Bachouchi, a 21-year-old philosophy student at Wilfrid Laurier University, showed up to class on Nov. 15 wearing a “mask”—or rather, a hollowed-out grapefruit.
It covered his nose and mouth, complying with the mandatory mask policy put in place for the fall university term. This is just the latest way Bachouchi, who plans to go to law school, is peacefully protesting an educational environment in which, he says, students “aren’t allowed to think or debate,” but are forced into “compliance.”
Experts have warned that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” unless urgent action is taken to boost treatment and research, after an estimated 1m diagnoses were missed during the pandemic.
The impact of Covid-19 and the focus on it has exposed “weaknesses” in cancer health systems and in the cancer research landscape across the continent, which, if not addressed as a matter of urgency, will set back cancer outcomes by almost a decade, leading healthcare and scientific experts say.
A report, European Groundshot – Addressing Europe’s Cancer Research Challenges: a Lancet Oncology Commission, brought together a wide range of patient, scientific, and healthcare experts with detailed knowledge of cancer across Europe.
HOW can the words ‘Covid amnesty’ even be uttered whilst the NHS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US public health watchdog, are yet to lay down their arms?
I can quite see why the Covid-pushers would want free passes to exempt themselves from the consequences of their actions, under some crass slogan like ‘we acted from the best of intentions’.
With respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) surging coast to coast, children’s hospitals have been reporting long wait times and overwhelmed emergency rooms due to unprecedented cases of the highly contagious illness, which causes cold-like symptoms in older children but can be very serious in infants.
Children usually accumulate immunity over time to RSV, according to Dr. Melissa Langevin, associate medical director of emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). However, at a CHEO medical briefing on Oct. 26, Langevin said that the last three years of COVID-19 and lockdowns meant “kids not interacting in the same way.”
Ontarians should put a mask on in all indoor public settings, the province’s top doctor advised on Monday.
Dr. Kieran Moore is “strongly recommending” the use of masking in those spaces as some pediatric Ontario hospitals say they’ve been overwhelmed by an influx of sick patients in recent weeks.
At this point, the province has not issued a mandate on the use of masks across the province, although some health-care officials have asked for one.
THE excess deaths crisis continues, with 1,232 – 12.3 per cent above the five-year average – registered in England and Wales in the week ending October 28, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Of these, 804 were attributed to an underlying cause other than Covid-19, bringing the total excess non-Covid deaths since the wave began in April to 23,287.
Two government sources say Ontario’s top doctor will recommend the public begin masking on Monday in an effort to help overwhelmed children’s hospitals.
The sources, who are speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the process publicly, says there will be no mask mandate.
Is Ontario about to bring in a return of mandatory masking for indoor settings? Perhaps a better question is, does Ontario need to bring in mandatory masking for indoor settings?
Canada’s top public health doctor says wearing masks in addition to other precautions could make it easier for hospitals to cope with a surge of respiratory viruses.
Some doctors, scientists and hospital officials in Ontario and Manitoba have asked public health officials to bring back mask mandates as hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of flu, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus or RSV.
Figures provided by the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) to The Epoch Times show that the military has registered 324 adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccination, with 23 deemed serious. The total number of hospitalizations in the forces due to COVID-19 itself is 16.
According to CAF, a total of 192,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to military members, with 324 cases of reported “adverse events following immunization” (AEFI).
Slightly more than half of Ontarians currently support a return to a provincial mask mandate, with nearly three-quarters saying they would follow masking requirements should the government bring them back, a new public opinion survey by Forum Research suggests.
The poll, conducted for the Star, found 77 per cent of respondents said they either already wear masks or that they are prepared to wear them again.
A 72-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison by a UK court after being found guilty of violating Chinese coronavirus lockdown rules by selling mince pies at a shooting club and attempting to destroy evidence afterwards.
h/t Osumashi
