“Vaccines ‘highly effective’ against the Indian coronavirus variant” – Public Health England has “changed its tone”, the Telegraph says, and now hail real world data showing double doses of the jabs to be “nearly as effective against the emerging Indian strain as they were against the Kent variant”
“Sewage testing ramped up in England” – The BBC reports that the Government has accelerated its programme analysing wastewater for signs of the coronavirus, with sewage testing now taking place in over two thirds of the country
“Dangerous Dominic Cummings just wants to be proved right” – Dominic Cummings is to give evidence to MPs about the Government’s handling of coronavirus, and “the ultimate data geek will deploy everything to win the argument” says Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times
“M&S profit seen crashing 90% in ‘lost year’ of pandemic” – Marks & Spencer is set to report a pre-tax profit before one-off items of £43 million for its year to April 3rd, according to Reuters, down from £403 million in 2019-20
“Why do we still tell people to isolate – even after two jabs?” – Pat Fagan in the Mail On Sunday asks why people who have had both jabs are still being asked to isolate by the Test and Trace system when evidence suggests that they are unlikely to pass the virus on
“America has chosen to be free. Why hasn’t Britain?” – “America is on the move,” says Douglas Carswell in the Telegraph. “Flights are full. Bars and restaurants are flourishing.” Meanwhile, “Britain dithers about whether to fully re-open on June 21st”
“The pandemic has revolutionised public data and there’s no turning back” – In an article published on the ONS website, Professor Sir Ian Diamond celebrates the “gains of the pandemic” in the recording and use of public data and points to its potential to provide “much faster answers to all of the big questions about our economy and society”
“No Deaths, No Pubs and No Standards” – The team at Bournbrook look back at the week gone by, taking in the hysteria over the Indian variant and the death of the British pub, for the 20th episode of The Week in Review
“James and Laura’s Chinwag #21” – For the 21st time, James Delingpole and Laura Perrins give it both barrels on the subjects of lockdown and Boris Johnson’s premiership
“Their lives haven’t changed since getting vaccinated. This is their new normal” – CNN interviews fully vaccinated members of the public who intend to keep their masks on. “I think it’s crazy that they are loosening these restrictions so wildly,” says Kimberly. “I don’t see myself giving up the mask in public for a long while”
“Frontline doctors file motion to stop FDA authorisation of Covid vaccines for children” – America’s Frontline Doctors have filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama “to prevent the expansion of the FDA’s Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for COVID-19 vaccines to include children under the age of 16”, LifeSite News reports
“Florida and DeSantis Defy COVID-19 and the Critics” – “As the country tries to recover from the pandemic… Florida is way ahead of just about every other state in the U.S.,” says Joe Nocera in Bloomberg. “The reason, of course, is that in Florida, the pandemic is being treated as ancient history”
“How To Create An Epidemic” – “Is an epidemic always a true epidemic?”, asks Dr Sam Bailey in her latest video. “Or perhaps, is the anatomy of the alleged epidemic something completely different from what is being widely portrayed?”
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