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Despite the fact that children are not contracting or dying from the coronavirus, New Jersey State Senator Joseph Vitale believes the COVID vaccine should “be included in that list of vaccines that are required for children” and he would “like to incorporate it into the other vaccination bill that would require children to get vaccinated...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unilaterally declared a ban on indoor dining in New York City that went into effect yesterday, claiming a spike in hospitalizations has forced his hand on the issue. Cuomo’s move to ban indoor dining comes just over ten weeks after restaurants and pubs were given the green light to operate...

Ringing in the holiday season with jingle bells of fear and hysteria, Dr. Michael Osterholm, one of Joe Biden’s top coronavirus advisers, said in an interview on CNN last week that Americans should not have any Christmas parties because “there is not a safe Christmas party in this country right now.” “The next three to...

New York City bodegas have reported a sharp increase in violent crimes as the virus outbreak continues to drag on in the city with forced lockdowns that have put many residents in dire financial straits.  The New York Times reported last week there has been a 63 percent increase in shootings outside bodegas, a 222 percent increase...

Hong Kong announced last week that gyms, swimming pools, and hair salons were to be closed until 23 December to slow the rising cases.  Since January, when the COVID War broke out in Wuhan, Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people, has registered a grand total of 118 deaths or 0.0015 percent of the...

Two recent studies, one from the U.K. in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet and the other an Icelandic study whose excerpts have recently appeared in National Geographic, confirm that schools, particularly elementary schools along with daycare centers, have much lower levels of virus infection than the general public. The Lancet study, published on 8...

Last month, an ABC News affiliate in San Francisco interviewed Dr. Christine Garcia, Director of the city’s Edgewood Center for Children and Families. Dr. Garcia is in charge of 28 mental health programs for young people, and she is highly concerned about severe teenage mental health issues from loneliness and isolation caused by the extended...

On 5 May, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an opinion piece authored by four U.K. experts in public mental health that proved very prescient:  “As many countries around the world are facing the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in their populations, discussions focus on flattening the curve to mitigate the impact on physically vulnerable...

Go out, have fun, visit friends and relatives. Eat, drink, and be merry. And if you do, you’ll go to jail and pay for it.  The Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported that anyone who is convicted of lying to public officials about their coronavirus status or nabbed outside during quarantine while inside a “red zone”...

As reported previously in the Trends Journal, the province of Victoria, Australia has imposed some of the longest and strictest quarantines in the world despite the minute amount of deaths from the virus (820 deaths in a population of nearly 6.4 million or 0.013 percent). In addition to destroying businesses and causing suffering from isolation,...