New research in JAMA has found that wearing a face mask causes children to inhale dangerous levels of carbon dioxide that becomes trapped behind the mask – more than six times the safe limit.
Lockdown sceptics are criticised for denying that reducing contact between people reduces transmission. However, this doesn't allow for the fact that reducing exposure does not greatly reduce infection risk.
The seventh of our weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
A new direct democracy initiative from Prof David Seedhouse for anyone fed up with politicians who follow their own agendas and ignore the people who elected them. Join up and have your say.
Most of the time Covid bubbles away in the background not doing all that much, but occasionally there's an explosive outbreak. What causes these to start and stop so abruptly? Here's a possible answer.
Photos from yesterday's March for Freedom in London sent in by Lockdown Sceptics readers.
Sajid Javid appears not to have got the memo about perpetuating restrictions on flimsy pretexts as in his first full day in office he has said he wants the country to "return to normal as quickly as possible".
A huge crowd has descended on central London today to make their feelings known to the Government about the endless restrictions we have been living under for over 15 months.
New PHE data shows the Indian variant now only infects 10.7% of close contacts. This figure has never gone much above 15%. So why isn't COVID-19 a more infectious disease?
In a perplexing and worrying development, Seychelles, one of the world's most vaccinated countries, announced today that it was extending restrictions for an indefinite period as infections remain persistently high.
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