Day: 2 August 2021

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

An elderly Sydney widow has written to the Australian saying she was arrested for exercising near her home, highlighting the lengths to which the Australian authorities are going to make citizens abide by lockdown rules.

Ashley Rindsberg, author of a book about the New York Times, has asked why the paper was so quick to dismiss the lab leak theory last year. Was it because of its extensive Chinese interests?

The number of new daily Covid cases in the U.K. fell to 21,952 today, the lowest it's been in five weeks. Meanwhile, deaths are up slightly compared to last Monday and hospitalisations are down.

Talks on the use of vaccine passports in Australia are gearing up – proof of full vaccination will soon be needed for fans to visit major sporting venues.

The NHS is looking to redistribute Covid vaccine doses, as slowing take-up rates among young Brits means up to 170,000 Moderna doses are at risk of reaching their expiry dates.

The 'pingdemic' continues to wreak havoc on businesses that are trying desperately to recover from the damage caused by lockdown, with one in 10 pubs and restaurants having been forced to close over the past month.

The American Medical Association now advocates removing sex from the public portion of birth certificates. Apparently, recording sex on birth certificates “fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity”.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

A rough calculation based on recent death data from PHS suggests that, with 87% of deaths in the vaccinated, vaccine effectiveness against death may be considerably less than studies have suggested.