Day: 10 August 2021

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

A panel of experts has told MPs that we should stop "frightening ourselves" with community testing because the Delta variant means there is no way of stopping Covid from spreading through the entire population.

The 11th of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

Another milestone has been reached in the U.K.’s Covid vaccine roll-out, with more than three-quarters of all adults having had two ‘jabs’.

We hear a lot about misinformation being put about by non-scientists, but nothing about fraudulent papers published in scientific journals. Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn investigates for the Daily Sceptic.

Almost a quarter of U.S. hospitals are requiring their staff to get 'jabbed' against Covid as a condition of employment, despite the efforts of some state leaders to ban vaccine mandates.

We're publishing a piece on the Daily Sceptic today by Anthony Brookes, a Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science at Leicester, University explaining why SARS-CoV-2 variants infect populations in wave-like patterns.

According to many news outlets, Europe experienced a deadly third wave of COVID-19 during the spring of 2021. However, in terms of excess mortality, this third wave was just a blip.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus — and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.

In this week's London Calling, James and I have our usual row about whether the mismanagement of the pandemic by the authorities is a conspiracy or a cock-up. I remain sceptical, while James proudly dons his tin foil hat.