pandemics
How dangerous is the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak?
Here we go again, or maybe not. The World Health Organization is reassuring us that the public health risk from…
The World Health Organisation has lost all credibility
Let’s be honest: is there anyone out there who has faith in the ability of the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
Pure genius
Of all the times and places to have been on the wrong side of history, I can’t imagine many worse…
The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
It has become a received wisdom in recent months that the US has failed where the EU had succeeded. On…
Silent witnesses
History is only as good as its sources. It is limited largely to what has survived of written records, and…
China’s COVID cover-up shows it can’t be trusted
‘Hide your capacities, bide your time’, China’s former leader, Deng Xiaoping, famously once said. Few in the West understood what…
Massachusetts study finds a third of sample have COVID-19 antibodies
Last week I reported here a Stanford University study which found that infection with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19…
