Whether out of ignorance of Covid’s minuscule risks to the young, a cynical realization that fear would drive ratings and clicks, anger at Donald Trump, or the genuine desire to beat the virus at any cost, reporters happily followed the government’s diktats.

Nursing homes generally house the frailest of the elderly. A 2010 study found that 53 percent of residents died within six months of being admitted.13

So doctors had high hopes for tocilizumab and similar antibodies. But they proved to be another disappointment, rarely helping patients. A paper published in early 2021 showed that patients treated with tocilizumab were just as likely to die as those who did not receive the treatment.

Those whose samples had a cycle threshold below 25 were six times as likely to die as those whose sample had a threshold over 30.

Almost two years into the crisis, we have not just failed to find really effective new small-molecule drug treatments for Covid, we do not even know if a long list of cheap drugs that are already widely available might help.

Vaccine advocates in the United States dealt with this failure in the most disingenuous way possible—by blaming it on unvaccinated people. They were lying. I don’t like using the word lie, but I have to. Nothing else fits. Fauci and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy both pretended that 97 or even 99 percent of American hospitalizations and deaths were i

One month into the care home vaccination programme, I am deeply concerned to be seeing covid-19 infection outbreaks among first dose vaccinated residents within, and beyond 21 days of vaccination.

Yet even as the report was released, we had hints the virus might not be as catastrophic as it had seemed during those first days in Wuhan.

Meanwhile, Pfizer and BioNTech reported their drug caused lymphocytes to drop temporarily in volunteers in an early clinical trial—a sign the vaccine might leave people more open to infection in the days after it was given.