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The Media’s Coverage of Trump’s Immunity Case Has Been Appalling

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April 30, 2024

By covering the Supreme Court’s hearing of Trump’s immunity claim as if the court were impartial and nonpartisan, the media has done the American people a serious disservice.

Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., on October 7, 2022.

(Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images)

In the few days since the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. United

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Big Brother SPOILER: Chanelle has her eviction immunity REVOKED after breaking rules around discussing nominations

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Chanelle has landed herself in hot water on Big Brother as her immunity from eviction has been revoked over a rule break.

The 29-year-old has been punished by Big Brother after she broke the rules around discussing nominations.

Chanelle had earlier won immunity from being nominated on Monday’s episode following the Hunger Games task.

But she is eligible to be nominated along with her fellow housemates in this week’s nominations.

The official Big Brother X/Twitter account wrote: ‘Breaking news! Big

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Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?

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In the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has belched out five variants concerning enough to earn their own Greek-letter names, followed by a menagerie of weirdly monikered Omicron subvariants, each seeming to spread faster than the last. Vaccines, which take months to reformulate, just can’t keep up with a virus that seems to reinvent itself by the week.

But SARS-CoV-2’s evolutionary sprint might not be

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What Did All Those COVID Infections Get Us?

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I, as far as I can tell, have not yet been infected by the virus that causes COVID-19. Which, by official counts, makes me an oddball among Americans.

Granted, I could be wrong. I’ve never had a known exposure or symptoms, but contact tracing in the United States is crummy and plenty of infections are silent. I’ve taken many coronavirus tests, but not that many coronavirus tests, and it’s always possible that some of their results missed the mark.

If

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Will Omicron Leave Most of Us Immune?

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Even before Omicron hit the United States in full force, most of our bodies had already wised up to SARS-CoV-2’s insidious spike—through infection, injection, or both. By the end of October 2021, some 86.2 percent of American immune systems may have glimpsed the virus’s most infamous protein, according to one estimate; now, as Omicron adds roughly 800,000 known cases to the national roster each day, the cohort of spike-zero Americans, the truly immunologically naive, is shrinking fast. Virginia Pitzer,

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So when WILL Covid chaos end? Booster vaccine immunity weakens after just 10 WEEKS

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Britain could face another year-and-a-half of Covid misery despite a hugely successful vaccination drive, scientists have warned on the back of data showing immunity from booster jabs starts to fade after just 10 weeks. 

Early real-world analysis of the UK’s immunisation scheme shows the efficacy of Pfizer’s top-up dose at preventing symptoms drops to as low as 35 per cent two-and-a-half months after getting a third dose, among people already given a full course of AstraZeneca.

But immunity levels appear

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AstraZeneca vaccine may give longer-lasting immunity that is shielding UK from European wave

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The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may give longer-lasting immunity that helping shield the UK from Europe’s latest deadly wave of the virus. the company’s chief executive has said – but it is still not approved in the United States.

Continental Europe is currently suffering a ferocious fourth wave of Covid-related hospital admissions that is not being seen across the English Channel, despite Britain having similar case numbers.

Pascal Soriot, chief executive of the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker, said the decision by most major

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‘Zero Covid absolutists’ accuse JCVI of being ‘anti-vax’ for considering herd immunity in children

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Newly-published minutes from JCVI meetings show that the group first looked at whether letting 12 to 15-year-olds catch Covid naturally was better than vaccinating them on May 13 (shown above). It looked at a range of reasons against vaccinating people in the age group, which included the argument that natural infection might be better and less risky

‘Zero Covid’ scientists have slammed the Government’s coronavirus vaccine advisory panel as being ‘anti-vax’ for considering the benefits of herd immunity over vaccination

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