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  • “Early treatment with HCQ: a country-based study” shows it works

    “Early treatment with HCQ: a country-based study” shows it works

    16 December 2020|Good Governance, SARS-Cov-2 (“COVID-19”), Visualisation / Insights As of 16th Dec 2020, +802,400 estimated lives were lost from not using Hydroxychloroquine Hydroxychloroquine works, and this has been known since the beginning by medical experts with no conflicts of interest. So why such obstinance in stopping people from being treated with it while others…

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  • ‘Unconscious bias’ mandatory training scrapped by UK Government

    ‘Unconscious bias’ mandatory training scrapped by UK Government

    Excellent news: “Unconscious bias training” is being scrapped for civil servants in England, with ministers saying it does not work “It doesn’t work”, indeed. The surprising thing is how could anyone think it could work in the first place. This is the least we could say: it can’t work because ‘bias’ is not something defined…

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  • Swiss Federal Office of Public Health stalls three main vaccines

    Swiss Federal Office of Public Health stalls three main vaccines

    No authorisations for Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca, and Moderna vaccines due to “lack of data on the effectiveness of the clinical trials and on the important subgroups that participated in these large studies”

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  • CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”

    CDEI publishes “Review into bias in algorithmic decision-making”

    In the 92-page nicely designed and worded document, the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation woes to address “bias” without providing any definition of what a ‘bias’ is. Originally published on the 6th Dec, updated 13th Dec. My attention was recently caught by a post on LinkedIn announcing that CDEI published a review into bias…

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  • Chief Scientific Advisory to UK PM: a never-ending embarrassment

    Chief Scientific Advisory to UK PM: a never-ending embarrassment

    “Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance has been forced to admit that there’s no evidence locking down pubs and restaurants saved a single life or stopped the spread of Covid. In the MailOnline, today 11th Dec, Mr Richard LITTLEJOHN says: “More than 10,000 people caught coronavirus after being admitted to NHS wards with other illnesses. Save…

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  • News: Oral Drug Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within 24h

    News: Oral Drug Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within 24h

    Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours Breaking News: Oral Drug Blocks SARS-CoV-2 Transmission within 24h, Georgia State Biomedical Sciences Researchers Find. ATLANTA—Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses virus transmission within 24 hours, researchers in…

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  • UK MHRA expects “high volume” side effects (ADR) but “vaccine” is “safe and efficient”

    UK MHRA expects “high volume” side effects (ADR) but “vaccine” is “safe and efficient”

    The UK urgently provisioned outside EU procurement standards for £1.5M an AI software to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs). As we are being told there were no corners cut in assessing the safety of Pfizer experimental vials (“vaccine”) and people’s health is paramount, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical…

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