A major positive surprise: research in Ireland finds that, since the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of babies born with dangerously low birth weights has dropped — by a large percentage. Correspondent.World has also discovered other unexpected ‘advantages’ in the age of Covid. Dr. Roy Philip, a neonatologist at University Maternity Hospital Limerick in Ireland. had […]
Britain has suffered a worse death toll overall in extra deaths during 2020, than any other country in Europe. This finding, by the British government’s Office of National Statistics, has fuelled a wave of alarmist media reports — and most of the media, and of course an array of opponents, have pointed almost-triumphant fingers of […]
Here is an article in the Telegraph that says what we have revealed in a series of reports. This has major implications for schooling. Coronavirus risk for young is ‘staggeringly low’, says UK’s top statistician. Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter also condemns the government’s “embarrassing” handling of Covid-19 ByLaura Donnelly, HEALTH EDITOR 10 May 2020 • 2:46pm
By Caroline Garland. Laurie Wiseman had some extraordinary visions. They are visions because they are part-hallucination (a disturbance of perception), part-delusion (a disturbance of belief) and part-dream. The kind of dream in which we try hard to make sense of life, out of the residue of the day and out of ‘the devices and desires […]
In a country with a history of brutal policing and human rights violations, South African companies are manufacturing and trading products identified by the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) as having no practical purpose other than abuse. New research by the South African-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) shows that some of the equipment […]
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Daniel Furner, the laywer who won an Appeal Court ruling for Shamima Begum, displays his gritty and occasionally self-deprecating wit. Furner says that when he studied law he “hated every moment” and was determined never to practise it. Yet this week the New Zealander became a renowned figure in British law circles, and in the […]
By Paul Cainer Struck down by Covid-19, 61-year-old Laurie Wiseman saw himself at his own funeral. Except he was still alive – and hallucinating.
The infectiousness of Covid-19 is surprisingly low, a Harvard University medical scientist has written in a prestigious health publication, the Journal of the American Medical Association. He says the disease will only spread to 3 per cent of health workers who come into prolonged contact with a person who was already infectious with Covid-19. “First, […]
Scientists think they have discovered at least one significant reason why children are less likely to transmit Covid-19 and are also less likely to experience the disease anything like as severely as the average adult. Children produce fewer ‘nasal ACE2 receptors, which serve as the entry point for the virus into cells’, according to an […]
By Paul Martin. From his prison cell inside Syria, Dr Mohammad Raza is planning his return to Britain – claiming he is in the same legal position as Shamima Begum. Dr Raza’s father, a former Pakistani army officer, has told correspondent.world he will fight to get his son brought to Britain, not to Pakistan. “My […]
By Paul Martin in Camp Roj, Syria. Fearful for her future as Kurdish forces hold her in a barbed-wire-surrounded compound, like so many others all she really wants is to come home.
Exclusive. By Paul Martin in Camp Roj, Syria. Sitting on a plastic chair in a cramped prison camp, her face covered with a black veil apart from a slot for her blue-grey eyes, a young British woman who fled home to join ISIS refuses to talk, then finally breaks her silence. Fearful for her future, […]
Shamima Begum, one of may ‘ISIS brides’ in captivity, should be allowed to return to the UK to challenge the government’s decision to deprive her of her British citizenship, senior judges have ruled.
By Paul Martin. On Friday March 8 2019 I was in Kurdistan, having just crossed the Tigris River from Syria. We had just been inside the Roj Camp yesterday at lunch-time the previous day. There, Kurdish military forces were (and still are) holding hundreds of women who had been married to jihadi ISIS fighters or […]
By Paul Martin. (OpEd)
Masks protect other people from your own germs, which is especially important to keep unknowingly infected people from spreading the coronavirus. But now, there’s mounting evidence that masks also protect you. If you’re unlucky enough to encounter an infectious person, wearing any kind of face covering will reduce the amount of virus that your body […]
A huge government study ( A ) – published on July 10 – of more than 1.3 million cases of Covid in the U.S. from January to the end of May found that there were infections in children under age 10 were only 1.5 percent of all infections. People aged between 20 and 29 (inclusive), who make […]