The latest vaccine surveillance report from PHE includes a breakdown by age and vaccination status for the first time. The results are fascinating.
Kenan Malik has attacked Lionel Shriver for a recent Spectator column arguing that "white Britons" should be concerned about becoming a minority in the U.K. Dr. Will Jones comes to her defence in the Daily Sceptic.
Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has insisted to MPs in the Commons that vaccine passports are necessary to end the pandemic. Israel and India tell a different story.
Restrictions are gone in the private sector, but in the public sector, where more customers just brings in more work rather than more money, there is conspicuously little rush to return to normal.
The Government has told doctors and teachers that most 12-15 year-olds should be deemed competent to consent to Covid vaccination against the wishes of their parents. This is wrong and will undermine trust.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
Evidence suggests misdelivering a Covid vaccine directly into the blood may be a cause of blood clots. Yet official guidance does not make any effort to avoid this. Why?
The latest data from PHE shows vaccine effectiveness against Delta infection is just 15% in the over 50s. Protection against death is holding up, though seemingly not in the under-50s.
As pressure mounts on the JCVI to approve vaccinations for 12-15 year-olds and boosters, it seems no one has bothered to ask what the point is if they don't produce herd immunity.
The latest findings of UCL's CLoCk study into 'Long Covid' in children and young people have been published, and the lead author has been spinning them on the BBC.
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