A backbench rebellion is brewing over plans to vaccine healthy 12-15 year-olds after 26 Tory MPs warned the Government overruling expert advice risks “dissolving the bond of trust” between the public and the Government.
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.
Retired dentist Dr Mark Shaw says that just as dentists are taught to intervene as little as possible and trust the human body, public health experts should heed the same lesson.
We're publishing another terrific post on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. This one is about the unseemly haste with which the Government raised National Insurance and the flimsy rationale for doing so.
As debates on the vaccination of children against Covid heighten, Pfizer is preparing to seek approval for its vaccine in 5-11 year olds from medicines agencies in the U.S. and across Europe.
Chris Whitty is expected to say that children aged 12 and over should be vaccinated to benefit their mental health and social development, after spending months supporting policies damaging to both these and much more.
After acquiring information about the WIV, Josh Rogin called around to get reactions from US officials. He discovered that “a large swath of the government already believed the virus had escaped from the WIV lab”.
Twitter bots have been blamed by liberals for every election result they don't like, from Trump's victory to Brexit. Yet according to a former Google software engineer, it's all wishful thinking.
Ministers seem keen to ignore the JCVI's advice and roll-out vaccines to children, but a new study shows that teenage boys are far more likely to suffer heart problems from the vaccine than to be hospitalised from Covid.
The latest vaccine surveillance report from PHE includes a breakdown by age and vaccination status for the first time. The results are fascinating.
