Rising infections are blamed on the Indian variant that PHE now claims causes twice as serious illness and talk has turned to continuing with restrictions. We've been here before.
The censorship of the lab leak theory and its collapse is a reminder of how those with vested interests and things to hide can succeed in deflecting unwanted attention and why a genuinely free media is so important.
A tribute to the 'Swiss doctor' and his facts about COVID-19 from SPR – a key early source of sceptical information that continues to provide meticulously referenced research.
In an original post for Lockdown Sceptics, Dr Ros Jones, a retired consultant paediatrician, says it's not okay for adults to ask children to take a medicine which may cause them harm to protect us.
"Never mind that masks don’t work, masking the healthy harms us all socially and psychologically: all mandates must end on June 21st", argues Dr Gary Sidley in a new piece marking the launch of the Smile Free campaign.
Once dismissed as a conspiracy theory, now being actively investigated, the lab leak theory always had lots to commend it. New emails show Dr Fauci was told the virus "looks engineered" back in February 2020.
In its third weekly vaccine surveillance report, PHE revises down its estimate of AZ efficacy to a lower bound of 65%. Are Government scientists becoming worried about the fitness of their "workhorse" vaccine?
So do the vaccines not work then? That's the impression you'd get from the way various members of SAGE are carrying on, warning of new waves and new variants and the need to delay the end of lockdown even further.
The third of our weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
As the UK contemplates even more delays to the end of lockdown, we hear from someone in Texas – where restrictions ended at the start of March – that "life is normal". Yet there's no sign of a "third wave".
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