We have published an update to our recent piece about the link between obesity and serious illness from COVID-19. Turns out, a lower percentage of obese patients in critical care die than of non-obese patients.
On 15 March last year, Matt Hancock said, "We have a plan ... Herd immunity is not part of it." Now Dominic Cummings claims that "herd immunity by Sep" was "literally the official plan in all docs/graphs/meetings".
England's Covid vaccine rollout has reached another milestone with more than 50 million doses having been given.
Children as young as 16 years-old are set to be offered Covid vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna as Manchester launches a "preventive vaccine plan" due to fears about the Indian variant.
How did managing an 'asymptomatic disease' become the focus of Government policy when, according to a senior research scientist, the concept makes so little sense?
Vulnerable people are no longer advised to shield in England, and almost 70% of them have been fully vaccinated against Covid – but new data shows that half are choosing to carry on shielding anyway.
SAGE has laid the seedbed for more lockdowns in the future, warning that current Covid vaccines are unlikely to protect against new variants of the ever-evolving virus, the eradication of which is "extremely unlikely".
New data from PHE suggests the vaccines are 90% effective in preventing symptomatic infection in the over 65s. But the study has numerous problems. It also shows the post-vaccine infection spike again.
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.
