“Chris Whitty warns UK will ‘definitely’ be hit by another Covid surge” – MailOnline reports that Chris Whitty thinks a new surge in infections is coming. But if it is coming anyway, what is the point of protracted exit from lockdown? Particularly as the most vulnerable have been vaccinated?
“Vaccines should mean more freedom – not less” – Matt Hancock said that “he’d ‘cry freedom’ when the most vulnerable had been protected”, writes Kate Andrews in the Spectator. “But now, things are swinging the other way”
“Care home provider introduces Covid vaccine passports in UK first” – Barchester Healthcare, which runs 240 facilities with 17,000 staff, is trialling the scheme as part of an effort to become a “fully vaccinated service” by the end of next month, according to the Telegraph
“Gibberish” – Omar S. Khan’s latest article, pulling all Covid ‘gibberish’ together, in one place to show that more is at stake here than we might think
“The dubious origins of long Covid” – Coronavirus is getting the blame “for a host of questionable symptoms”, says Jeremy Devine in the Wall Street Journal
“The many variants of Fauci’s mutating Covid advice” – Dr. Fauci’s “messaging on reinfection and herd immunity has now mutated across dozens of variants”, writes Phillip W. Magness at AIER, “each conveniently aligning with his political messaging of the moment”
“America Is Overtaking China in Vaccine Diplomacy” – China won the pandemic, and America lost it, goes the standard narrative, but the US is staging a come-back according to Hal Brands at Bloomberg
“New Coronavirus Variants – An Epidemiologist Speaks” – “We have to stop the nonsense,” says Dr Knut Wittkowski. “We have entered a vicious cycle. With every new wave, we’re starting a new wave of lockdowns. The lockdowns are creating a new virus. Then we have a new epidemic.” Full transcript available here
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