Day: 3 February 2022

The 25th of our round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medics to inform the debate on vaccination.

The U.K. has approved a fifth COVID-19 vaccine, developed by U.S. company Novavax, which uses established vaccine technology rather than mRNA or another novel genetic approach.

Lockdown sceptics were publicly shamed and vilified for saying lockdowns won’t work in March 2020, but now we have evidence they were a disaster. May it never happen again.

Sweden has announced the end of almost all restrictions as its Public Health Agency becomes the latest to declare COVID-19 "no longer a danger to society".

Of 27 pregnant or recently pregnant women reported to have died with Covid in the UK up to March 2021, how many actually died from Covid? Very few, it appears.

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.

Jonny Smith, co-writer of lockdown musical Scotch Egg, got in touch after listening to the most recent episode of London Calling and hearing the title of the closing number come up: "You can't be too careful."