Wes Streeting has called the Kent meningitis outbreak – now with 20 cases and two deaths – "unprecedented". Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson take a look at the data to see if he's right.
The "superflu" fizzled out like every winter bug does, but the media and NHS had everyone panicking anyway, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. We need less drama and more data; we've all seen winters before.
As the 'Superflu' fizzles out like a damp squib, the BBC and its experts have been left with egg on their faces (again). Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson highlight the worst offenders and their flip-flopping views.
The mainstream media have spent weeks pumping out fear porn over the 'Superflu' crisis supposedly engulfing the NHS. Now as the reality becomes undeniable, even the BBC is rowing back, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Britain is in the throes of a 'superflu' scare, and so is Canada. But oddly, all is calm in Europe, while the WHO reports nothing out of the ordinary. What's really going on, ask Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
Addressing the lurid claims of a 'super flu' season, Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson find themselves having serious problems reconciling the screaming headlines with the actual Government data.
The Covid Inquiry states ministers failed to grasp the shortcomings of models, but then asserts that 23,000 people died because lockdown was late. It's an absurd contradiction, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
Does the UKHSA's refusal to release the Covid vaccine excess deaths data because they could "have an adverse impact on vaccine uptake" give the game away, ask Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
Once a bastion of an evidence-based approach, the BMJ became biased towards lockdown and lost its way, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. History will judge that the lack of debate in its pages was a serious error.
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