Day: 15 June 2021

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is to recommend against the vaccination of under-18s until there is more safety data, according to the Telegraph.

Leader of the House of Commons and member of Boris Johnson's Government Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the Government must stop taking charge of people's lives "purely to prevent them seeing the doctor".

Lockdown Sceptics' in-house doctor says Chris Whitty's slide show at yesterday's Downing St briefing was a blatant exercise in biased data selection.

16% of pregnant women in the U.S. have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine. Black and Hispanic mothers are up to four times less likely to have been vaccinated than white and Asian mothers.

Nicola Sturgeon says that Scottish lockdown restrictions will likely be maintained for a further three weeks from June 28th (when restrictions were supposed to be eased) so as to "buy time" to fully vaccinate more Scots.

I have written a piece for the Mail today in which I say it's becoming clear that the only way we're going to get our freedoms back is if we take them back – and we should start with masks. How about a Boston Mask Party?

All adults in England are expected to be offered a Covid vaccine by the end of the week. The Chief Executive of NHS England hopes that two-thirds of all over-18s will be fully vaccinated by July 19th.

The fifth of our weekly round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

Progress in reducing deaths from breast cancer has been put at risk by lockdown, with more than 10,000 fewer patients in England alone having started treated for the disease in the past year compared to the year before.

A recent study found that keeping schools open had only a minor impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Sweden. The results suggest that "school closure is not an effective way to contain SARS-CoV-2".