UN health agency convenes experts to assess if mpox outbreak in Africa is a global emergency
Officials at the Africa CDC said nearly 70 per cent of cases in Congo are in children younger than 15, who also accounted for 85 per cent of deaths. Mpox was reported last week in Burundi and Rwanda for the first time while other countries including Kenya and the Central African Republic also identified cases.
Revealed: Largest study of its kind finds ‘the idea that the Covid vaccine saved lives is ridiculous’
Rancourt said they found “the idea that the vaccine saved lives is ridiculous” and based on flawed modelling as he and colleagues also showed in a previous paper. Here again, they found no systematic or statistically significant trends showing that vaccination campaigns in 2020 and 2021 reduced all-cause mortality.
