Eight Nightingale hospital surge hubs were built by the Government this winter for an undisclosed amount of money that now stand empty in anticipation of a wave that never came.
Covid ICU admissions in Israel have hit record levels, reaching 130.5 per million on January 26th, topping 127.1 on January 19th 2021. Why is this when Omicron is milder and the country is now highly vaccinated?
Despite 95% of the elderly being vaccinated, mortality in December was 9% higher than the five-year average, with much of the excess due to Covid – another indication that vaccine effectiveness has been overestimated.
The majority of Covid patients in hospitals in England are not primarily being treated for the virus for the first time, rising to almost two thirds in London, official statistics show.
The trouble with complex predictive models is they're too unreliable to be trusted. But are they reliably unreliable enough to be banned?
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.
