SAGE's claim that the Indian variant could mean 10,000 hospital admissions a day in mid-July assumes that between 30% and 60% of the U.K. population could become infected with the new variant in a single week. Yeah, right.
We're publishing a guest post today about an unexpected benefit of the pandemic: the emergence of scientifically- and data-literate groups of amateurs who scrutinise and challenge the official scientific narrative.
The Biden administration is not planning on imposing a vaccine mandate and will not keep track of those who have been vaccinated, but it will allow business, colleges and universities to demand proof of vaccination.
Anti-lockdown protests are taking place across the world today and protestors are streaming through Central London this afternoon. Needless to say, the BBC has yet to cover the demonstration.
We're publishing an original essay today about the decline of Britain into an authoritarian, one-party state by Dr. James Alexander, an Assistant Prof in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Turkey.
Debenhams will close the doors of its remaining U.K. stores for the final time this weekend because of lockdown, bringing more than 240 years of retail history to an end.
Some schools are ignoring the change in the Government's guidelines and will continue to instruct children to wear face masks in the classroom, despite the Department for Education saying they have no right to do so.
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.
It's well-known that flu-like illness including COVID-19 is seasonal. What drives that seasonality is less well understood. Is it temperature, sunlight, humidity? A new suggestion is that pollen plays an important role.
