Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the #CovidReport could say
Devi Sridhar

To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/21/covid-report-leaders-pandemic-political-system

#science #covid19 #publicHealth #ukpolitics

Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say

To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The Guardian

Has Evgeny #Lebedev, owner of the Independent, who was made a life peer by his mate Boris Johnson, fallen out completely with the latter?

It seems his paper had decisively concluded there is no way back for Johnson.

While I heartily agree, I’m somewhat surprised to be reading it here.

But every fool can outlast their usefulness for oligarchs I guess…take note Farage.

#Covid
#CovidReport
#Johnson
#Tories
#Partygate

COVID levels are increasing. Take care, mask up, keep current on your vaccinations.
#COVIDreport #PublicHealth
https://peoplescdc.substack.com/p/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-34c
People's CDC, COVID-19, Weather Report, August 11, 2025

Wastewater COVID levels continue to rise and act today to ensure OSHA reports COVID and access to healthcare services are not limited.

People's CDC

I took a closer look at the second part, the conclusions of the report are the following.

PROXIMAL ORIGIN PUBLICATION: “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.

Yes, closing quotation marks are missing in the original too, you would imagine they'd format their documents better, but then again the whole report is terribly formatted. They didn't even bother to copy emails as text and just pasted around the images.

It is really funny how all evidence they provide to support this claim actually appears to disprove it completely.
Because from the available evidence what we can clearly see is the following:

1. Fauci did not prompt the authors to write the article
2. Fauci did not take part in the writing of the article
3. Fauci asked the authors to analyze the Lab Leak theory if they deemed it viable and publish any results which supported it

Here, have a page of the document to evaluate how well it was drafted. No, on this page none of the text is selectable. To be fair, they did pretty good: on some other pages there is some selectable text...

#Covid #CovidReport

Dave Brown on the UK’s Covid inquiry #CovidInquiryUK #MattHancock #BorisJohnson #DavidCameron #JeremyHunt #CovidReport #COVID19 #COVIDAccountability #BaronessHallett – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
People's CDC, July 8, 2024, COVID-19 Weather Report

This is the @PeoplesCDC bi-weekly update for July 8, 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.

People's CDC
Rather than open the door to “constructive and democratic discourse” (which we badly need) the Manning Report fails abysmally by not addressing key issues https://open.substack.com/pub/lisayoung/p/constructive-and-democratic-discourse?r=gh29k&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post #AlbertaPolitics #CovidReport
Constructive and Democratic Discourse

I’ve struggled to write something about the Manning report. It opens with “an appeal that [the Report’s] content be the subject of “constructive and democratic discourse” rather than the negative and rancorous discourse that increasingly characterizes public debate of important issues in an age of political polarization and cancel culture.”

What now?!? An Alberta Politics newsletter
These allies of #BorisJohson are jumping before they are pushed. Goodness, knows what is in the #covidreport

Here’s a #covidHandout on #cilia
& the link to the #CovidReport study
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01505-7?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422015057%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Again, #noScienceGirl but liberal arts aren’t no dummies whatsoever; we live to learn🌈

Last year myself was #hopium on nasal vaccines but heard #osterholm claim success not likely.. there’s some episode he explains why but still hoped..am still hopeful tbh

SARS-CoV-2 replication in airway epithelia requires motile cilia and microvillar reprogramming

Respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, bypass the defensive mucus/mucin layer of the airway by entering and exiting epithelial cells via their protruding, motile cilia and microvilli.

Cell
How can a conclusion be “most likely” with “little confidence”?! #coviidlableak #COVIDreport