News Round-Up
August 4, 2021 12:37 am 45 CommentsA summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A report from Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the U.S. Congress has said the "preponderance of evidence proves" the virus leaked from the WIV "sometime before September 12th, 2019".
The tenth of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
A rough calculation based on recent death data from PHS suggests that, with 87% of deaths in the vaccinated, vaccine effectiveness against death may be considerably less than studies have suggested.
Positive Covid tests fell again today, both compared to yesterday and compared to last Saturday, making it the tenth day in a row reported infections have dropped week-on-week. Can we go back to normal now, please?
Dr Mark Shaw wonders whether we have reached a turning point, where more and more people are asking whether what is going on really makes sense.
Now that the Delta fear has been dispelled by events, what justification is left for not ending the mass testing, self-isolation, vaccine passports and 'guidance' and returning us to normal?
Christopher Snowdon misfires repeatedly as he unloads another volley against lockdown sceptics. But does he have more in common with the sceptics he lampoons than he'd like to admit?
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
It's been suggested that the recent surge and drop-off in Covid infections can be pinned on the football. But why then do Scotland and England's curves in June look so different?
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