Day: 9 January 2022

The double-vaccinated are almost twice as likely to be infected as unvaccinated people, data from Iceland shows. This is the same pattern as found in data from the U.K.

The modellers who warned Britain had to impose severe restrictions or face tens of thousands of deaths from Omicron are in retreat – although they've yet to admit they were wrong about every previous variant too.

A recent study from Qatar shows that people who acquired natural immunity to the original Wuhan strain had excellent protection against severe disease from later variants, some of which were more virulent.

A Daily Sceptic reader has complained to the BBC about its reporting of Britain's Covid death toll. It failed to make clear that 150,000 have died 28 days after testing positive for Covid, but not necessarily of Covid.

We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic by New York based writer Nick Comilla about why so many apparently sensible, intelligent people have welcomed the state's interference in their liberty.

Covid should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the current booster campaign, Dr. Clive Dix the former Chairman of the U.K.’s vaccine taskforce has said.

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.