Tony Blair was quoted recently as saying: "If you're not vaccinated at the moment you're not just irresponsible, you're an idiot." But is that a fair way to describe the decisions people face?
The last two weeks have brought three new studies finding negative efficacy for two vaccine doses, meaning the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated.
The latest data from the UKHSA suggests that reported probable Omicron infections in London are already declining.
The latest UKHSA data shows a sharp drop in unadjusted vaccine effectiveness in 18-29 year-olds, down to minus-75% in the month ending December 19th, from minus-10% the previous week.
Patrick Vallance has come to the defence of SAGE after some torrid headlines this week following revelations from lead modeller Graham Medley that Government had not asked them to model less disastrous scenarios.
Analysis of data from England by the UKHSA released today confirms that the Omicron variant is causing less severe illness than Delta, with risk of emergency admission to hospital reduced by 62%.
A pre-print study from South Africa published on Tuesday has found that the risk of being hospitalised with Omicron is just a fifth of the risk with Delta. Yet SAGE continues to call for lockdown.
According to new ONS data, the triple-vaccinated are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than the unvaccinated. The double-vaccinated, meanwhile, are 2.3 times more likely to have Omicron.
The amount of misinformation being put out by politicians and medics about the proportion of unvaccinated people in hospital with Covid is reaching a new level that is beginning to feel disturbingly sinister.
A leaked NHS report claims that hospitals in London are “likely to become overwhelmed due to rising Covid demand in the next two to three weeks”. Haven't we heard this before?
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