Organizer tells TV report private initiative is saving lives, alleviating pressure on hospitals; 170 unregistered serious patients mean tally is at 1,000

By MICHAEL BACHNER, TOI  11 October 2020, 11:49 pm  6

Oxygen concentrators used by a private ultra-Orthodox medical initiative treating coronavirus patients at their homes, without authorities knowledge, October 2020. (Screenshot: Channel 12)

A widespread network of volunteers in ultra-Orthodox areas has reportedly been secretly treating thousands of coronavirus patients in their homes for months, as an alternative to increasingly overcrowded hospitals, without authorities’ knowledge.

The initiative began in anti-Zionist Haredi sects that wanted to avoid using Israeli hospitals, but has spread to the entire community as hospitals come closer to being overwhelmed, and their staff overworked, Channel 12 reported Sunday evening.

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By SIMON KENT, BREITBART Oct 2020

AP Photo/Matt Dunham

The UK’s envoy to the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) has condemned mass coronavirus lockdowns, slamming the “ghastly global catastrophe” caused by crashing the world economy.

Dr. David Nabarro from the W.H.O. appealed to world leaders on Saturday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus.

He claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty – with no mention of the potential lives saved.
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The president’s glowing testimony boosted its shares but put Regeneron in an awkward position

By Kiran Stacey, David Crow and Donato Paolo Mancini, FINANCIAL TIMES

U.S. President Donald Trump pulls off his protective face mask as he poses atop the Truman Balcony of the White House after returning from being hospitalized for coronavirus disease treatment this past week.PHOTO BY REUTERS/ERIN SCOTT

When Donald Trump hosted senior executives from 10 pharmaceutical companies at the White House in March to discuss the coronavirus, he was particularly keen to hear the views of a man he affectionately called “Lenny”.“Lenny” was Len Schleifer, at one point Trump’s occasional golf buddy, and the chief executive of Regeneron, a biotech company that has been thrust into the spotlight after the president claimed its COVID-19 drug cured his disease and can do the same for millions of others.

By Jason Devaney, JEWISH VOICE

Scientists from three top schools argue that building up herd immunity among the population while keeping others safe via “Focused Protection” is how society should deal with the pandemic, not lockdowns.

Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Oxford, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford are all experts in infectious diseases and public health. They met recently in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and penned what they call “The Great Barrington Declaration,” which offers an alternative approach to managing the COVID-19 crisis.

Arguing that the lockdowns “are producing devastating effects on short- and long-term public health,” they said more harm than good is happening. “Lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings, and deteriorating mental health” are among the impacts on society, they wrote.

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By Leo Hohmann

Since February, the U.S. media has been pounding Americans with non-stop reporting about COVID-19 coronavirus.

Eight months later, the data shows everything the media said about the virus was false. Yet, those posing as “journalists” continue to repeat the lies from February and March as if they are facts rooted in their quest to “follow the science.”

Every one of the BIG THREE lies seems designed to promote panic and an irrational response to the actual threat.

Anyone who even suggests that maybe the governments of the world have been overreacting to a virus that kills at about the same rate as the flu has been immediately shot down as stupid and not worth listening to.
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By Allysia Finley, WALL STREET JOURNAL  10-9-20

If Covid-19 is a once-in-a-century pandemic, the timing could be a lot worse. A lockdown would have been far more burdensome before the internet made it easier to work, meet and shop at home. And thanks to other technological breakthroughs, vaccines may be universally available as early as next fall.

Past vaccines have taken a decade or longer to develop, and more than half over the past 20 years have failed during clinical trials. But four vaccine candidates have entered the last phase of clinical trials before approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Technological breakthroughs that were already in progress got a boost from a bureaucratic one in May, when the Trump administration launched “Operation Warp Speed.” The initiative organized government agencies and private companies around the goal of developing, manufacturing and distributing hundreds of millions of vaccine doses with initial doses available by early 2021.
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By Neil Clark , RT News   October 8, 2020

The UK Prime Minister’s remote speech to his party conference saw him dismiss the idea of returning to normality. Is he using Covid-19 to follow the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ agenda, as many have warned?

‘It’s not really about public health or a virus. They have another agenda.’ That’s what the so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ have been saying since March, when the first British lockdowns were imposed and our lives were turned upside down.

Those ‘conspiracy theorists’ were denounced, as always, as ‘cranks’ and ‘flat-Earthers’ but here we are in October, and, let’s face it, there is absolutely no sign, despite very low numbers of deaths ‘with’ Coronavirus, that we are returning to anything like normal. In fact, in his keynote speech yesterday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson specifically ruled out a return to normal, not even with a vaccine.

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