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The Most Educated Are the Least Likely to Get Vaccinated Against Covid, According to New U.S. Study

The most educated are the least likely to get a Covid vaccine, according to a new U.S. study. While hesitancy rates have fallen across populations, it has held constant in those with PhDs.

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News Round-Up

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

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Vaccines Don’t Stop Transmission and Won’t Give Us Herd Immunity, So Let’s Stop Mass Testing, Experts Tell MPs

A panel of experts has told MPs that we should stop "frightening ourselves" with community testing because the Delta variant means there is no way of stopping Covid from spreading through the entire population.

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Vaccine Safety Update

The 11th of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

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More Than 75% Of All U.K. Adults Fully Vaccinated Against Covid

Another milestone has been reached in the U.K.’s Covid vaccine roll-out, with more than three-quarters of all adults having had two ‘jabs’.

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Fake Science: The Misinformation Pandemic in Scientific Journals

We hear a lot about misinformation being put about by non-scientists, but nothing about fraudulent papers published in scientific journals. Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn investigates for the Daily Sceptic.

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Almost a Quarter of U.S. Hospitals Are Forcing Staff to Get Vaccinated Against Covid

Almost a quarter of U.S. hospitals are requiring their staff to get 'jabbed' against Covid as a condition of employment, despite the efforts of some state leaders to ban vaccine mandates.

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Assembling Covid Jigsaw Pieces Into a Complete Pandemic Picture

We're publishing a piece on the Daily Sceptic today by Anthony Brookes, a Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science at Leicester, University explaining why SARS-CoV-2 variants infect populations in wave-like patterns.

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EuroMOMO Analysis Indicates That Europe’s Third Wave Was A Blip

According to many news outlets, Europe experienced a deadly third wave of COVID-19 during the spring of 2021. However, in terms of excess mortality, this third wave was just a blip.

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News Round-Up

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Read more