Having listened to an interview with Prof Jeremy Brown of the JCVI, maths student Glen Bishop draws on the real world data to offer a critique of some of the points he made.
No sooner had the WHO yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Director General was making a statement distancing the organisation from what observers called a "whitewash".
A new study from UCL claims to find that a single vaccine dose provides 62% protection for care home residents. A closer look, however, tells a more complex story.
No surge as schools open in the UK, no surge in free states like Texas and Florida – is anyone in Government watching the real world or are they too busy gawping at the huge bell curves in Neil Ferguson's latest model?
Two more places show that the "more contagious and deadly" Kent variant fails to live up to the hype: Texas and Florida. Both have no restrictions and a high prevalence of Kent Covid, but no surge.
No schools surge, no Christmas surge, and the British variant in decline over a week before lockdown. None of these facts are "right", none of them fits the mainstream narrative. Is someone going to tell the Government?
As the promise of freedom recedes, events in Britain take a worrying turn, as Boris declares the public "want us, as their Government – and me as the Prime Minister – to take all the actions I can to protect them".
On the one hand Government obviously believes I can't be safe from Covid because all the restrictions remain – with no excuses for the vaccinated. On the other hand, they say the NHS is open for routine business.
A major review led by Jon Deeks, Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, has concluded lateral flow tests are too inaccurate to be used in mass screening in schools and workplaces.
A senior research scientist for a pharmaceutical company on lockdowns: "Why would you give your patient a drug with more side effects than an equally effective one with less?"
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