Day: 2 October 2023

The Education Secretary, Gillian Keegan, has said she cannot rule out Covid-style school closures in the future as you "would have to deal with what you were dealing with".

19 year-old Sudiksha Thirumalesh died last month after a court ruled she was not mentally competent to override her doctors' view that her treatment should cease. But was this right, asks Dr David Seedhouse.

Drew Weissman has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work developing the mRNA vaccines. But in earlier papers he warned about the "non-trivial" side-effects of mRNA shots, including blood clotting risks.

A study published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour has found that political mass gatherings in the US had no effect on the course of the pandemic. Which makes it even less likely that lockdowns did.

The U.S. CDC is recommending for everyone six months of age and older to get vaccinated against both flu and COVID-19 this autumn, despite admitting it has no safety data.

The Science Secretary Michelle Donelan is set to unveil a review into the "utter nonsense" of public bodies being encouraged to gather data based on self-identified gender rather than biological sex.

A recent study has found unexpected heart muscle changes in Covid-vaccinated people, prompting concerns about vaccine safety and the need for further research.

A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ‘climate emergency’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.