Devastating New Data From PHE Shows Vaccine Effectiveness Down to 17% and No Reduction in Infectiousness – But Mortality Cut by 77%
PHE's latest technical briefing on the variants of concern has some key data on the performance of the vaccines.
Day: 6 August 2021
Northern Ireland Begins Vaccinating Healthy 16 and 17 Year-Olds Against Covid
Northern Ireland has become the first U.K. nation to extend its vaccine rollout to healthy 16 and 17 year-olds, and...
Get ‘Jabbed’ or “Miss Out on the Good Times”, Government Tells Young in Latest Ad Campaign
If you don’t get vaccinated against Covid, you won’t be able to enjoy your life, young people are told in...
Brit Complains of Rodent Infestation at £1,750 Quarantine Hotel
Complaints of "prison-like" conditions at quarantine hotels, costing Red List travellers £1,750 for 10 days, don't seem to have led...
A Letter From Iceland
We have published a letter from Iceland in the Daily Sceptic: "High vaccination rates will not bring us back our...
Should We Be Surprised That Case Numbers Have Been Falling?
“Nobody really knows what’s going on”, says the epidemiologist John Edmunds, commenting on the recent decline in cases. But there...
What the Modellers Still Don’t Understand About Herd Immunity
Bristol's Prof Philip Thomas admits he was wrong about the size of the Delta wave, but now predicts no winter...
News Round-Up
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about Covid and other areas of warranted scepticism in...
