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I’m a Pediatric Brain Surgeon and I’m Concerned about the Impact of Delayed Diagnoses on My Patients Due to COVID-19

Sheila Singh McMaster University Sheila Singh is a Professor of Surgery, Neurosurgeon, Scientist, and Director of Cancer Research Centre, McMaster University The incidence of brain cancer in children in Canada is three in 100,000. Brain cancers are treatable when they are localized but prognosis worsens and they become less

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Apply the Rules Equally or Not at All

Apply the Rules Equally or Not at All

Conserve NZ It seems that many people want to hold faith leaders Brian Tamaki and Peter Mortlock accountable for backing protests that they consider to be potential “super spreaders” of Covid-19. So if people see this as a justifiable position, then there is another public figure who needs to

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Government Must Buy COVID Treatments Now

Government Must Buy COVID Treatments Now

News from Merck that their antiviral pill, Molnupiravir, reduces the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 will be hospitalised by about 50 per cent is incredibly encouraging and should prompt the New Zealand Government to urgently contract for this drug and other next generation Covid treatments, National’s

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Think like a Domino

Voices for Freedom Yesterday, I took one for the team. I listened with gritted teeth to our Dear Leader (and her trusty public health sidekick), telling us how they’ve “bin” working hard to create us a new framework. We’re moving away from “elimination” ( and don’t you know

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Is the Tide Beginning to Turn?

KSK It is raining.  Again.  It is also the day that, once again, there is another lockdown/lockout/lockup in place.  In yet another diatribe from the lectern of lies, we have been berated by our stern arm-waving, head-rolling, eye-squinching Head Prefect, like wilful children for failing

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The Spinoff Shills Class Hatred

The Spinoff Shills Class Hatred

Yesterday the hypocrites at the Government funded mouthpiece, The Spinoff, were spinning a bit of class hatred with an article by a Karen of Grey Lynn called Leonie Hayden. In the article, the Karen moans about people from neighbouring and presumably more well off suburbs, enjoying a little bit of

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Time Has Run Out on Government’s Incoherent COVID Strategy

Time Has Run Out on Government’s Incoherent COVID Strategy

The Government’s incoherent and timid approach to the Covid pandemic shows it lacks the courage required to make tough decisions for the benefit of New Zealand, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “Yesterday’s announcement confirms what most New Zealanders – especially Aucklanders – have come to learn only too

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‘Instead We Can Dismiss’

‘Instead We Can Dismiss’

Chris Penk First published by The BFD 7th July 2020 The BFD has serialised National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Today is the final extract. “Instead we can dismiss” Let us finish as we began, observing that it was only supposed

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