It's well-known that flu-like illness including COVID-19 is seasonal. What drives that seasonality is less well understood. Is it temperature, sunlight, humidity? A new suggestion is that pollen plays an important role.
Boris Johnson confirmed today that "nothing" is ruled out in responding to the Indian variant including new lockdowns. But does the data show that the variant is anything for us to worry about?
When the New York Times weighs in to fact check the CDC, you know something is in the wind. Reporter David Leonhardt says the CDC's advice that less than 10% of transmission occurs outdoors is true but deceiving.
The Prime Minister has told MPs that coronavirus variants pose a potential lethal danger and a new surge in autumn is highly likely. Is the supposedly 'irreversible' lifting of lockdown under threat?
In an article promoting global government, the Telegraph's Global Health Security correspondents have made the bizarre claim that public health lockdowns have no trade off with the economy. Misinformation, anyone?
Despite a winter Covid surge in the UK and Sweden, and even a spring one in Sweden, both countries now look set for a low mortality 2021. Did the "second wave" just bring deaths forward a few months?
Two new vaccines studies from PHE bring encouraging news on protection against hospitalisation and death. But they leave me with more questions than answers.
Imperial College's modelling has been consistently poor at predicting the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet for some reason Neil Ferguson and the ICL team remain respected authorities on epidemic modelling.
A new population study from Israel published in the Lancet finds that the Pfizer vaccine is 95% effective once a person is fully vaccinated. But have they taken into account that infections were falling anyway?
A new peer-reviewed study calls for a full investigation into the safety and environmental impact of disposable face masks after finding easily detachable plastics and heavy metals including lead in them.
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