Day: 26 November 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.

The Republic of Ireland is already planning a campaign to vaccinate the nation's children after the European Medicines Agency approved use of the Pfizer jab for five to 11 year-olds.

Sajid Javid has told the Commons that the new Nu variant is of "huge international concern" and that: "One of the lessons of this pandemic has been that we must move quickly, and at the earliest possible moment."

In the Australian state of Victoria, a vaccine mandate covering 1 million people in the workforce has recently come into effect.

The UK Statistics Authority has written to the ONS to censure it for a recent report claiming that the risk of death with Covid was "32 times greater in unvaccinated people than in fully vaccinated individuals".

Schools across America are forcing their students to have lunch outside, even in the cold and the rain, to prevent the spread of Covid.

At the start of 2020, the Guardian and New York Times ran articles describing China's lockdown as "terrifying" and "without precedent". Fast forward to March, and both papers were calling for national lockdowns.

New analysis shows that the UKHSA data showing higher infection rates in the vaccinated is not a result of using wrong population estimates, as critics had claimed.

We're publishing an original piece on the Daily Sceptic by Roger Watson and Niall McCrae about an attack on one of them in the Journal of Advanced Nursing and the Journal's refusal to publish a reply.