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6/8/21

Northern Ireland Begins Vaccinating Healthy 16 and 17 Year-Olds Against Covid

Northern Ireland has become the first U.K. nation to extend its vaccine rollout to healthy 16 and 17 year-olds, and reports suggest that young people are "excited" to get 'jabbed'.

6/8/21

Get ‘Jabbed’ or “Miss Out on the Good Times”, Government Tells Young in Latest Ad Campaign

If you don’t get vaccinated against Covid, you won’t be able to enjoy your life, young people are told in the latest Government ad campaign which nods to the introduction of vaccine passports later this year.

6/8/21

Brit Complains of Rodent Infestation at £1,750 Quarantine Hotel

Complaints of "prison-like" conditions at quarantine hotels, costing Red List travellers £1,750 for 10 days, don't seem to have led to any improvements, with one Brit now saying his hotel has a rodent infestation.

6/8/21

A Letter From Iceland

We have published a letter from Iceland in the Daily Sceptic: "High vaccination rates will not bring us back our freedom or save us from the dystopia of a permanent dictatorship run by the public health establishment."

6/8/21

Should We Be Surprised That Case Numbers Have Been Falling?

“Nobody really knows what’s going on”, says the epidemiologist John Edmunds, commenting on the recent decline in cases. But there are at least nine previous examples where cases fell in the absence of restrictions.

6/8/21

What the Modellers Still Don’t Understand About Herd Immunity

Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter surge. I think he's wrong again, and for the same reason – a misunderstanding of herd immunity.

6/8/21

News Round-Up

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

5/8/21

Public Health Scotland Adds 85 Unvaccinated Deaths in a Week as it “Updates” its Reporting

Last week I reported that data from PHS showed that 87% of the deaths added in the most recent week were in the vaccinated, giving a VE of just 46%. This week's data is very different, but it is a reporting artefact.

5/8/21

Number of NHS App ‘Pings’ Falls by 43% In a Week but Remains Close to 400,000

The number of 'pings' sent out by the NHS Covid app in a week has finally fallen but remains very high, with almost 400,000 people in England and Wales alone having been told to isolate by the app in just seven days.

5/8/21

Travellers to Mexico Discover it’s been ‘Red Listed’ in Mid-Air

MailOnline has a harrowing story about a woman who discovered Mexico has been placed on the red list as she was flying to Mexico City yesterday. Unfortunately, the cheapest flight home before Sunday is £6,878.

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