Day: 4 April 2021

The Government risks being defeated in the Commons over Covid vaccine passports, which MPs will be given a vote on before being introduced.

Michael Gove has asked readers of his article in the Telegraph to "keep sharing their views on the way ahead" regarding Covid vaccine passports. Judging from some of the top-rated comments, he may regret having asked!

British health officials are worried that younger people – particularly young women – may turn down the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine because of fears over blood clotting.

The number of weekly deaths in England and Wales for the w/e March 19th was the lowest since 2014, according to David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters.

We're publishing an interview today with Kevin McKernan, a PCR expert. He believes the UK’s testing system is “a mess” and not using PCR to diagnose other diseases is “killing people”. He also thinks the UK’s glacial reopening is “madness” and that the we should follow in the footsteps of Florida.

by Oliver May AFTER Panorama's exposé last week of cross-contamination at the Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes, a PCR expert has told Lockdown Sceptics that the UK’s testing system is “a mess” and not using PCR tests to diagnose other diseases, because all the reagents are being used to diagnose Covid, is “killing people”. He also thinks the UK’s glacial reopening is “madness” and that the we should follow in the footsteps of Florida. This week, Lockdown Sceptics spoke exclusively to Kevin McKernan who has a wealth of experience in PCR. He is the Chief Scientific Officer and founder of US company Medicinal Genomics, the former CSO of Courtagen Life Sciences Inc and former Vice President and Director of R&D of Life Technologies. He has overseen more than 100 research collaborations exploring next generation sequencing. He was also the President and CSO of Agencourt Personal Genomics, a start-up company he co-founded in 2005 to invent revolutionary sequencing technologies that dropped the cost of sequencing a human genome from $300 million to $3,000. On top of the contamination risk shown in at least one Lighthouse Lab, two European courts have ruled the PCR test “cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt” whether a person is infectious. Then there is the issue of cycle thresholds. The Corman-Drosten paper, which established the working protocol for ...

The number of primary school leavers struggling with literacy has risen by 30,000 over the past year, taking the total up to over 200,000. In this time, 840 million days of in-person schooling has been lost.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Lockdown sceptics are akin to mass-murdering Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in promoting "antiscience" and causing "mass death", an article in Scientific American has claimed. But do its claims stand up to scrutiny?