News Round-Up
14 May 2025
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The Government has refused to release the minutes of a meeting in which its vaccine advisory committee decided not to recommend the jabbing of healthy teenagers, saying it will publish these so "in due course".
Elon Musk is moving Tesla's headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas after criticising lockdown measures by local leaders as “fascist”. Musk is a steely-eyed lockdown sceptic.
It’s not been the best of starts for the vaccine roll-out for healthy teenagers which has been described as “haphazard” and now looks unlikely to meet Government targets.
'Fact-checking' organisation Full Fact has taken exception to the Daily Sceptic publishing estimates of vaccine effectiveness from PHE data. But as this correspondence shows, the errors are entirely theirs.
A Brit travelling back to England from France on Eurostar yesterday was accosted by armed French police and left stranded in Lille because he was wearing the "wrong type of mask".
Health chiefs have warned that lockdowns and social distancing could have led to a drop in immunity to seasonal influenza which could in turn result in the highest number of flu deaths this winter in 50 years.
Nurses are being fired for not getting vaccinated, despite having natural immunity. They served on the frontline for more than eighteen months, while the people demanding mandates were sitting at home on their laptops.
In early August, writing for the Daily Sceptic, Prof Anthony Brookes made some predictions about how the next few months would pan out. He got them all right, underlining the accuracy of his Covid picture.
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.
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