Day: 12 October 2021

The 13th of our round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.

Fans attending upcoming England rugby matches will need to take vaccine passports proving either that they've been jabbed, tested negative for, or recovered from Covid.

The Commons report claiming it was a 'big mistake' not to lock down sooner seems to have been written to get Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark on the BBC news rather than get to grips with what went wrong over the past 18 months.

The number of patients seeing their GPs face-to-face may be even lower than official figures suggest, with phone consultations being recorded as face-to-face appointments.

Deadlines loom for U.S. troops to get fully vaccinated or lose their positions, yet hundreds of thousands have still only had one dose of a Covid vaccine or no doses at all.

Now that almost all vulnerable people have been vaccinated, why are we trying to stop children getting the virus if, as Chris Whitty says, “the great majority” of them are going to get it at some point anyway?

The news yesterday reported that pregnant women are at greater risk of becoming seriously ill with Covid. However, the mortality data tells a different story.

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.