The Great Betrayal
July 21, 2021 1:33 pm 250 CommentsOur leaders should be ashamed of themselves for how they have abused young people, their trust, and jeopardised their health and strangled their aspirations these past 16 months.
Our leaders should be ashamed of themselves for how they have abused young people, their trust, and jeopardised their health and strangled their aspirations these past 16 months.
The ninth 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 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 new study in the Lancet finds that adverse events are 400% more common in real world patients than in trial participants for a standard blood pressure drug, calling the reliability of all drug trials into question.
It looks increasingly like the peak of the current surge has not yet arrived in England, and the recent slowdowns may have been temporary. However, Scotland holds out hope it may not be too far off.
The Question Everything Lockdown Summit took place in London yesterday and featured contributions from many of those who have featured prominently on this site over the past year, not least Toby and Dr Will Jones.
There are now more infections in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated for the first time, according to ZOE data. But why has the graph suddenly disappeared?
During a Covid surge, what proportion of the population is exposed? Is it almost everyone, with most being immune, or is it only a small proportion, with everyone else left susceptible? This is the crucial question.
Is the recent UK surge peaking? It's hard to see it in the Government's daily 'case' numbers, but ZOE's Tim Spector says his data shows it is, and the unvaccinated are leading the way.
Positive Covid tests have shot up in the last two weeks in the Netherlands after nightclubs reopened. But is there more to it than meets the eye?
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