A pre-print study from South Africa published on Tuesday has found that the risk of being hospitalised with Omicron is just a fifth of the risk with Delta. Yet SAGE continues to call for lockdown.
Professor Eugene Milne, Newcastle's Director of Public Health, has said that Newcastle fans should re-consider going to Sunday's match against Manchester United due to the spread of the Omicron variant in the area.
According to new ONS data, the triple-vaccinated are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than the unvaccinated. The double-vaccinated, meanwhile, are 2.3 times more likely to have Omicron.
Gillian Keegan, the Care Minister, has said that New Year's Eve celebrations might have to be cancelled due to fears about the Omicron variant.
The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.
The U.K. Health Security Agency, the successor organisation to Public Health England, is about to publish its first detailed analysis of Omicron which suggests it causes milder disease than the Delta variant.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has said that those who do not wish to be vaccinated are going against the Christian principle of 'love thy neighbour'.
The amount of misinformation being put out by politicians and medics about the proportion of unvaccinated people in hospital with Covid is reaching a new level that is beginning to feel disturbingly sinister.
A leaked NHS report claims that hospitals in London are “likely to become overwhelmed due to rising Covid demand in the next two to three weeks”. Haven't we heard this before?
