SAGE have released papers today claiming social distancing and masks must remain in place for another year to avoid another wave of deaths this summer at levels seen in January, despite the high vaccine take-up.
A new study in Nature shows that not only do people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop lasting T cell immunity, but so too do their close contacts who were never infected. This means herd immunity is closer than we think.
Lockdown sceptics are akin to mass-murdering Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in promoting "antiscience" and causing "mass death", an article in Scientific American has claimed. But do its claims stand up to scrutiny?
France is in lockdown again as cases and deaths spike. But look more closely and you find a spike in testing too, leaving the positive rate flat. Plus, excess deaths are negative. Is it in a pseudo-epidemic of testing?
A reader writes to tell us about an unfortunate experience she had with NHS Test and Trace when her deceased husband tested positive for Covid.
A survey of 54,000 people published in the BMJ finds that just 43% of those with Covid symptoms fully self-isolate. This is why lockdowns don't work. Nothing to do with the myth of asymptomatic transmission.
A paramedic has written to Lockdown Sceptics to tell us about how through her job she encounters hundreds of sick people every day and hardly ever gets ill, despite never wearing a face mask before the pandemic.
Professor of Psychology Ellen Townsend has appeared on the Planet Normal podcast to say how harmful lockdowns have been to children: “We’re putting adults first when we should be putting children first.”
Why does Wikipedia's COVID-19 page claim 14% of infections are "severe" and 5% are "critical"? Worse, why does the US CDC say the same? Why aren't they following the up-to-date data, which puts global IFR at 0.15%?
Having previously claimed Kent Covid is "twice as deadly", PHE now backtracks and says it's no worse. This hasn't stopped Macron from blaming it for his new lockdown. But are the new variants evading our immune system?
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