Day: 23 May 2021

A round-up of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

We're publishing a guest post by the Lockdown Sceptics' technology correspondent about last week's vaccine passport update to the NHS App which, according to this industry insider, has created a honeypot for hackers.

On Thursday, PHE releases a study showing the AZ vaccine is 90% effective in the over-65s. On Saturday, they release a study showing just it is 66% effective across all ages. Why is no one asking questions about this?

Please read this essay by a best-selling, prize-winning novelist about the price we'd be willing to pay if the lab leak theory turns out to be true. Will we let China off the hook? Or will there be a reckoning?

The line from officials on the chance of lockdown ending on June 21st has shifted from "nil" to "very good" in less than a week – largely due to confidence in the effectiveness of vaccines against the Indian variant.

by Amy Harvey Let’s conduct a thought experiment. Consider this: If the price of your comfortable lifestyle in the Western world was paid for by three and a half million deaths, would you accept that price? If the price of your cheap fashionable clothes made in China, your smart phones and computers manufactured in China, and 63% of all the amazingly inexpensive, mass produced consumer goods that you buy from Amazon that come from Chinese sellers and manufacturers – if the price for all these things was three and a half million lives, would you accept it? Would you take the smart phones, the fashions, and high tech gizmos and tell yourself that the three and a half million lives were someone else’s problem and that they didn’t really effect you personally? Is your smartphone worth those three and half million lives? Does the pay-off equation only work when you add up: your sneakers, your casual shoes, your suit, your make up, your car, your stereo, your headphones, your underwear, your umbrella, your raincoat, your sunscreen, your DVDs, your printer, your lamps and lightbulbs, your TVs, your remote controls, your roof insulation, your water filters, your microprocessors, your battery charger, the cement you will use to build your next house. Maybe it’s only when you add up all the things ...

The fear whipped up over Covid has resulted in millions of Brits struggling to return to normal life, says a new report which will warn that people with "Covid Anxiety Syndrome" are locking themselves down from within.

Researchers in the U.S. have projected that productivity losses caused by school closures during lockdowns will lead to a 3.6% decrease in GDP and a 3.5% decrease in hourly wages by 2050.

The CDC is investigating several dozen reports of heart inflammation in teenagers and young adults after Covid vaccination. These cases occurred in people days after receiving an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna).

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.