A summer wave, a winter wave, the threat of new restrictions – Chris Whitty and Neil Ferguson were not holding back yesterday. But for all the doom and gloom, the signs are the summer ripple is already peaking.
Answering the call from Lockdown Sceptics for news from the reopened states in America with which to shame our own glacial reopening in the U.K., here is the first of the stories of freedom from the U.S.
With topsy-turvy results for doses 1 and 2 and confidence intervals wide enough to drive a bus through, PHE's latest vaccine study leaves a lot to be desired.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is to recommend against the vaccination of under-18s until there is more safety data, according to the Telegraph.
Leader of the House of Commons and member of Boris Johnson's Government Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the Government must stop taking charge of people's lives "purely to prevent them seeing the doctor".
The fifth of our weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
What justifies a lockdown? That's the question which, 16 months after the policy was introduced as a draconian tool of disease management, we still don't have a clear answer to.
As the UK Government is set to extend lockdown yet again, we want to hear from our readers in the reopened states in the US. We want to tell the stories the Government doesn't want people to hear.
When the infectiousness (secondary attack rate) of the Delta variant over time is plotted against that of other variants it becomes clear that claims it is hyper-transmissible make no sense.
PHE released their latest technical briefing yesterday which claims the Delta variant is 64% more infectious than the Alpha variant. But look closer and this headline finding is not all it seems.
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