A growing number of COVID infections continue to hit China, and megacities like Beijing and Shanghai are facing a scarcity of medicines and emergency equipment. Wu Fang (a pseudonym) from Shanghai’s Pudong New Area told The Epoch Times on Jan. 4 that COVID-19 is rampant in the community and that “there are a lot of…

Commentary I’m mostly interested in Mike Pence’s book “So Help Me God” for what he says about the experience of COVID controls, for this is what wrecked the administration he served. That will be my focus in what follows but let me first address what everyone is right now thinking: how could anyone give their autobiography such…

To date, we still don’t have especially good studies on the actual causes of excess deaths by state and country when the world first went into lockdown in spring 2020. For political reasons, these deaths were all generally been lumped together as “COVID deaths,” but this coding was appallingly sloppy. According to the World Health Organization’s…

Commentary You know the phrase self-aware? It does not apply to Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law. He somehow weaseled his way into the center of COVID planning in the White House. He dragged along two college buds, Nat Turner and Adam Boehler, two mega-rich kids without a lick of experience in pandemics or public…

The mom of a premature baby documented her daughter’s miraculous growth, snapping photos of her next to her favorite toy and blankie. Mary Akram, 22, was told to prepare for the worst when her daughter, Arabella, was born 13 weeks early in September 2020. The tot weighed 2 pounds, 1 ounce (0.93 kg) at birth…

SATARA, India—At least 24 patients died on Wednesday in a hospital in western India after a disruption to their oxygen supply caused by a leaking tank, the health minister said, as a nationwide surge in coronavirus cases soaks up supplies of the crucial gas. The incident in the city of Nashik, one of India’s worst-hit…

SATARA, India—At least 24 COVID-19 patients in western India died on Wednesday when the oxygen supply to their ventilators ran out, amid a nationwide shortage of the gas and a surge in infections. Maharashtra State Health Minister Rajesh Tope confirmed the deaths at a hospital in Nashik city and said the hospital’s oxygen supply ran…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected allegations that he gave preferential treatment to Dyson in March last year, after Sir James Dyson lobbied him via text messages. According to the BBC, in a text exchange last March, Boris Johnson personally promised Sir James Dyson he would “fix” an issue over the tax status of…