Infection 64% less likely to put you in hospital and 72% more likely to be asymptomatic – some good news on the vaccines from ZOE. But for the high risk the news is not all so good.
The claim, repeated by Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday, that without a lockdown in March 2020 "the NHS is going to be smashed in weeks" is demonstrably false. Infections were declining even as the words were spoken.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' mortality monitor this week – without warning or explanation – changed the baseline on a key chart from the ten-year average to 2019 – the least deadly year ever. Why?
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019 for possible COVID-19. But is that too late for a lab leak?
In denying that herd immunity was ever Government policy, ministers are drawing a distinction between something being policy and accepted as inevitable. If only this distinction had been applied throughout the year.
A round-up of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
On Thursday, PHE releases a study showing the AZ vaccine is 90% effective in the over-65s. On Saturday, they release a study showing just it is 66% effective across all ages. Why is no one asking questions about this?
The latest PHE study shows that hundreds of people with symptomatic COVID-19 were turning up and being vaccinated, despite Government guidance saying people who are unwell should defer the jab.
New data from PHE suggests the vaccines are 90% effective in preventing symptomatic infection in the over 65s. But the study has numerous problems. It also shows the post-vaccine infection spike again.
A new paper in Clinical Infectious Diseases has shown that the spike protein from an mRNA Covid vaccine is present systemically in the blood from the day of the jab and is not localised to the site of injection.
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