STANFORD DOCTOR ON CHINA'S FAILED COVID POLICY: "Pray for the people of China because it’s absolutely a disaster what they’ve had to go through last year as a result of their move from zero Covid to essentially now letting it rip."

         

JAY BHATTACHARYA MD • STANFORD UNIVERSITY: CHINA’S COVID SURGE PROVES LOCKDOWNS DON’T WORK

‘It was inevitable that this virus was going to infect basically everybody’

NPR: 'Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it's now less risky than flu'

      

ROB STEIN | NPR

Has COVID-19 become no more dangerous than the flu for most people?

That's a question that scientists are debating as the country heads into a third pandemic winter. Early in the pandemic, COVID was estimated to be 10 times more lethal than the flu, fueling many people's fears.

📺 NOT KOSHER: Even as they celebrate their annual DOG MEAT FESTIVAL, a NEW strain of FLU found in CHINA has potential to become ANOTHER PANDEMIC, scientists warn

☝️ABOVE: Potential new swine flu pandemic & the barbaric Yulin dog meat festival has opened in defiance of supposed government restrictions in China. Allowing mass gathering in an unhygienic meat market is a public health risk. But, Chinese authorities have done nothing to stop the festival.

Holly Ellyatt | NBC NEWS

KEY POINTS

• The new strain has descended from the type of flu (“swine flu”) that emerged in 2009 causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years.

• As with swine flu, however, the new strain has been identified as having “all the essential hallmarks of a candidate pandemic virus.”

• The new strain of flu should be monitored closely, scientists say.