While vaccination against COVID-19 confers obvious and substantial benefits in preventing serious illness, booster shots have a complex immunology that means they come with a risk and must be considered with great care. Dr Rochelle Walensky, a physician-scientist who directs the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr William Powderly, an infectious diseases […]

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COVID vaccines' have failed to achieve what was so lavishly promised in the pandemic's early days, when public health officials and others encouraged the mass media to depict inoculations as the silver bullets that would tame and defeat the virus. It hasn't quite worked out as billed. Robert Clancy, a leading Australian immunologist, explains how and why

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Thirty frontline doctors in Australia recently treated over 600 patients with COVID-19. The treatment strategy was ivermectin (IVM) with doxycycline and zinc. Five of the patients required admission to hospital for progressive symptoms. There were no deaths. In a similar number of contemporary Australian patients not treated with IVM, seventy were hospitalised and six died. […]

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It seems we are afflicted by a cognitive dissonance which sees policymakers grasp that current vaccines are of limited value -- and may even be counterproductive in the longer term -- while simultaneously demanding an entire nation roll up its sleeves. Follow the money and you'll be led not only to motive but also to the sorry spectacle of a medical culture that has lost the resolute leadership it now so desperately needs

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As we emerge, in a manner of speaking, from lockdowns and closed borders there are three vital questions. First, does 'escape from the bubble' mean the full restoration of liberties we took for granted in the pre-Covid world? Second, what path will see us pull off this escape? Third, how can we retain the freedom that has been promised?

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Surprisingly, the reasons given by the TGA for the decision forbidding physicians prescribing ivermectin isn't the usual 'unproven', this based on a highly dubious and incomplete survey of the literature. No, it is because widespread use of a cheap, off-patent treatment 'may interfere with the vaccination programme'. What a brazen admission of the bureaucrats' real motive for foiling the use of a much needed drug

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Professor Robert Clancy, a practising clinical immunologist, presents three difficult but important questions related to our future with COVID-19. First, what does 'escape from the bubble', a term favoured by chief medical officers and politicians, actually mean? Second, what is the path to that goal of a pre-COVID normality? Third, how can we regain and retain this freedom?

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In an article in Quadrant Online in January this year, twelve months into a pandemic with a level of devastation unknown to our generation, I described Australia as an island nation, isolated in an artificial and unstable bubble from a sea of COVID-19 causing 15,000 deaths across the world each day. At that time Australia […]

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It is unlikely Australia will see the levels of post-vaccine complications witnessed in the US and Europe as the the low incidence of infection here means widespread priming of the immune system has not happened. The second injections and future booster shots, however, raise the disturbing prospect of very different outcomes. Scandalously, all this while two cheap, proven and effective drugs are spurned

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This not the time for those who should know better to publicly argue for one or other COVID-19 vaccine, not when full and adequate evidence for any such choice is well down the line. What the current moment most definitely does demand is early treatment, especially for the aged and most vulnerable, and for this two cheap, proven and off-patent drugs are readily available -- hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin

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