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Is Vaccine Effectiveness Against Death Mostly a Statistical Illusion?

In new analysis, Prof Norman Fenton argues that the apparent high vaccine effectiveness against death may be an illusion created by problems in the definitions used in the data.

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Unvaccinated Close Contacts Must Self-Isolate Under New Rules, Which The Double Jabbed Can Avoid If They Test Negative

From Tuesday, unvaccinated close contacts of Covid cases must self-isolate for 10 days, whereas the double jabbed can avoid this requirement if they test negative.

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Austria Loosens Its Lockdown Restrictions – But Only for the Vaccinated

Although Austria has ended its national lockdown, the unvaccinated still have to abide by these restrictions, and are denied the right to access public places which have been allowed to re-open.

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Big Pharma Will Make Omicron-Specific Booster Shots Even Though They’re Not Needed, Says Anthony Fauci

The White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that pharmaceutical companies will make booster shots designed to target the Omicron variant, even though this course of action is unnecessary.

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Is there Any Evidence that the New Lockdown Measures will Work?

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a a pharmaceutical company exec looking at the effect of 'Plan B'-like measures in Scotland and Wales and concluding they will make zero difference to omicron's impact.

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The Evidence That Vaccine Passports Are Worse Than Useless

As the size of the Commons rebellion over 'Plan B' grows ahead of the vote on Tuesday, at the Daily Sceptic we thought we'd take a look at the evidence for vaccine passports.

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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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A Doctor Writes… What We Know About the Omicron Variant So Far

The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor discusses what we know so far about the Omicron Covid variant and sees little evidence of increased pressure on the NHS to date.

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Protesters Gather in London to Object to Vaccine Passports

Protesters gathered in London earlier today to demonstrate against plans for a COVID-19 pass as part of the Government's 'Plan B' restrictions.

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Latest Modelling on Omicron Ignores All Evidence of Lower Severity, Among Numerous Other Problems

As we've come to expect from LSHTM and epidemiology in general, their latest model calling for stringent restrictions to save the NHS is un-scientific and contains severe problems making its predictions worthless.

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