New data from PHS shows that unvaccinated people now form a minority of infections and hospitalisations. The latest estimate of vaccine mortality reduction is 67%.
The 11th of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
Why do the LFT bristles break away so easily, and why are they tube-like? Prof Anthony Brookes and Dr Kees Straatman have taken a closer look with a laser microscope and sent the images to the Daily Sceptic.
Back in July, ZOE data showed cases in the unvaccinated falling while they climbed in the vaccinated, but this disappeared when they updated their methodology. New data from PHE suggests they were right first time.
Why does data from PHE show that in the under-50s the fatality rate in the vaccinated is 57% greater than in the unvaccinated?
PHE's latest technical briefing on the variants of concern has some key data on the performance of the vaccines.
Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter surge. I think he's wrong again, and for the same reason – a misunderstanding of herd immunity.
Last week I reported that data from PHS showed that 87% of the deaths added in the most recent week were in the vaccinated, giving a VE of just 46%. This week's data is very different, but it is a reporting artefact.
The report from round 13 of Imperial's REACT study is out, and it has some disappointing results on vaccine effectiveness and hospitalisations among the under 64s.
Infections are surging in America, driven by the Delta variant, but there is little appetite for new restrictions now the vaccines are here. Is the curve already peaking in the early hotspots?
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