FOCUS: COVID-19
BMJ study on link between excess deaths and Covid jab raises questions
A large study in 47 Western nations, published in BMJ Public Health, suggests that the “unprecedented” flood of nearly 3m pandemic-era excess deaths internationally since 2020 might be linked to Covid-19 vaccines, as well as other pandemic health strategies.
The study’s authors didn’t make any definitive claims about causality but rather recommended further investigation, including into the effect delayed healthcare had on excess mortality, most notably for cancer treatment.
The research found that apart from Covid deaths, there were about 1m...
FOCUS: ONCOLOGY
Covid link to aggressive rare cancers, suggest scientists
Increasingly, scientists are suggesting that the proliferation of aggressive cancers – including previously very rare forms of the disease – since the Covid-19 pandemic are too coincidental to ignore. Their question is, could the coronavirus trigger an inflammatory cascade and other responses that, in theory, could stimulate cancer cell growth?
In 2021, a year into the pandemic, when the doctors from his US oncology practice gathered for their Friday team lunch, Dr Kashyap Patel told them he had just seen...