Imperial College's modelling has been consistently poor at predicting the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet for some reason Neil Ferguson and the ICL team remain respected authorities on epidemic modelling.
The NHS’s vaccine booking site hasn't just failed to keep people’s vaccine status private but has also failed to allow pregnant women to book the vaccines they have been advised – by the NHS – to receive.
We've published a guest post on Lockdown Sceptics by our technology correspondent. He's unimpressed by the NHS's vaccine booking site, where you can find out anyone's vaccine status if you know a few details about them.
The Government has announced a "cautious" resumption of international travel for people in England from May 17th, with only 12 countries added to the quarantine-free "green list". The list will be reviewed every 3 weeks.
We're publishing a third postcard from our Brazilian correspondent today in which he explains that infections are declining across Brazil in spite of President Bolsonaro's stubborn refusal to lockdown.
We are not going to have a national lockdown in Brazil There it was. With that simple phrase, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro dashed the hopes of everyone who thought he might perform a U-turn. The hateful media, the think tanks, the politically-minded state governors, the scores of lockdown lovers, all of them. That’s when I knew. Brazil was not now, not ever, going to have a national lockdown. Because, if not now, when? Let me take you all back a few months. Since roughly August of 2020, Brazilians had been living almost completely free lives. Sure, there were some token rules in place, depending where you were in the vast, continent-sized country, but they were barely adhered too. The first wave had come and gone. In reality, if it hadn’t been for the hysterical media coverage, it would have gone unnoticed, swallowed up by the black hole of constant tragedy and stress within the Brazilian medical system. By the middle of August, bolstered by high levels of immunity and the onset of the South American summer, Brazil was back to its normal glory. Nightclubs, samba, travel, social gatherings with huge clans of extended family, business conferences, hugs, kisses, dancing, everything. There was even a fair amount of tourism from other countries where people desperately craved an escape from the brutal ...
More good news today – if only Boris was paying attention to data, not dates. Come on BoJo. Reward the electorate for delivering yet another hammer blow to the Labour Party and set them free.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has issued new guidance today saying that adults aged 30 to 39 without underlying health conditions should be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Today we're publishing a debate about immunity passports between Dr. Alberto Giubilini, a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.
After being urged not to "pander" to the pro-mask teaching unions, the Prime Minister is expected to end the face mask requirement in secondary school classes when the next step of the "roadmap" comes into force.
