It was only on April 30th this year that the WHO finally updated its website to indicate that COVID can be transmitted via airborne particles. Had this happened sooner, our response might have looked rather different.
The number of deaths registered in England and Wales has been below the five-year average for seven consecutive weeks. This may be because deaths were "brought forward" by the pandemic.
The authors of The Great Barrington Declaration have teamed up with several other academics, including Carl Heneghan, to launch Collateral Global, which aims to document the far-reaching impacts of lockdowns.
In a new essay, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that the lab leak theory provides a far better explanation of the available facts than the alternative, natural origin theory.
Excess mortality is high in Latin America, moderate in Europe, low in East Asia and low in island nations. This suggests geography matters more than lockdowns when it comes to explaining COVID-19's lethality.
A new paper in The Lancet claims countries that followed a Zero Covid strategy have the best outcomes when it comes to health, the economy and civil liberties. But it's not very convincing.
Nobody would propose going into lockdown if they looked at the current numbers. So why why have we not come out of lockdown? As Daniel Hannan argues, the answer could be status quo bias.
In a new paper, the economist Douglas Allen reviews the literature on the costs and benefits of lockdown. He concludes that the costs of Canada's lockdown far outweighed the benefits.
Lockdown proponents often argue that case numbers always go down after a lockdown is imposed. However, there are several countries where a lockdown was imposed, but case numbers did not immediately decline.
In March, the age-standardised mortality rate for England was 26% lower than in February, and was 5.5% below the five-year average.
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