Following his disgraceful treatment at the hands of the Covid Inquiry, Carl Heneghan writes with Tom Jefferson to Baroness Hallett to set the record straight and suggest she move her inquiry onto a more serious footing.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson have decided that they will continue to cover the Covid Inquiry, despite its extreme biases, but will leave reporting on the sordid sideshows to others.
UKHSA's 100 Covid models that it says are the evidence base for lockdown are not science, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, who have now gone through and reviewed them all.
Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson have taken it upon themselves to appraise the UKHSA's evidence for Covid restrictions. No wonder they didn't want to do it themselves, they say: it's a complete mess.
At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
Well, it now looks as if the grandees are turning against each other, with Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser during Covid, accusing politicians of cherry-picking the science.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has finally acknowledged the lack of good evidence on the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs. But there are still no plans to rectify that, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
The "carnage" in care homes as Covid hit and the vulnerable elderly were hastily discharged from hospital and isolated from proper care is laid bare in a new study.
It’s that time of the year when the first murmurings of winter crisis emerge in the NHS and politicians scramble to 'do something'. But will this year's 'Winter Plan' be any better than those before it?
Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan write that their Cochrane review on masks found no evidence they stopped viruses – a politically inconvenient conclusion that had to be silenced, come what may.
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