Day: 27 October 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.

Two new analyses of Covid test swabs find dangerous levels of aluminium, silicon and ethylene oxide, raising questions again about how safe they are and how effectively they are being regulated.

The claim that 97% of scientists believe in man-made global warming is misleading. It's based on a dodgy survey that few journalists or politicians have bothered to scrutinise.

The unvaccinated are set to be banned from this winter's Berlin Christmas Market.

A recent report has concluded that the NHS Test and Trace scheme was a £37 billion failure for the taxpayer.

In the United States, Advisory boards on the FDA and CDC have approved the use of the Pfizer vaccine for five to 11 year-olds.

The epiforecast group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine recently held a competition to forecast cases and deaths. They found that self-declared experts performed slightly worse than non-experts.

Cambridge statistician David Spiegelhalter – assisted by the Times – joins calls for the UKHSA to stop producing "completely unacceptable" data showing infection rates higher in the vaccinated.