Scenes of protesters clad in hi-vis jackets and shouting anti-vaccination slogans have dominated the news this week. As the ABC reported: “Some of those gathered held a banner reading ‘freedom’, while others sang the national anthem and chanted ‘f*** the…
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The Pandemic Almost Killed Allie. Her Community’s Vaccination Rate Is 45%.
The Allie Henderson who stepped out of her mother’s car to a driveway full of cheering friends and family holding “Welcome Home” signs was a wisp of her former self. After 10 days in the hospital with a near-fatal case…
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French nuclear tests infected ‘almost entire Polynesian population’: report
France concealed the levels of radioactivity that French Polynesia was exposed to during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966-1996, with almost the “entire population” of the overseas territory infected, a report said on Tuesday. Online investigation site Disclose…
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Doctor almost died of a heart attack to avoid burdening the NHS
The doctor who almost died of a heart attack… because he did not want to burden an NHS hospital coping with coronavirus Dr Paul Trafford, 63, returned home two weeks ago after a gruelling day at work The consultant anaesthetist…
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