Category: TRENDS ON THE COVID WARFRONT

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,...

Last Friday, the FDA officially authorized “emergency use” of the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer. Of the 21 members of the FDA advisory committee, there were four who did not vote in favor. One of those was Dr. A. Oveta Fuller, an associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School....

As we go to press, the word’s out that by Thursday, the millions of people who were lining up to get tested for COVID could be lining up to get vaccinated within days.  According to an article published by CNBC yesterday, “Yes, your boss can fire you if you refuse to get a COVID vaccine.” ...

Dr. David Williams, Ontario’s chief medical officer, said in a recent interview that he cannot force someone to take the coronavirus vaccine, but anyone who refuses will no longer have the freedom “to move around,” according to a WND.com report.  “What we can do is to say sometimes for access or ease of getting into...