Dr Clare Craig

A recent study of deaths in U.S. students appears to show a declining rate of sudden cardiac deaths. Dr. Clare Craig looks at why the results are not all they seem.

Public Health Scotland identified a spike of 65 baby deaths during the Covid vaccine rollout but has refused to investigate the role of the vaccines as it could "harm vaccine confidence".

Excess deaths in Australia are fuelling fears about the role of Covid vaccines, says Dr Clare Craig, as the country had little Covid before 2022, making it a control group for identifying harms from the vaccines and virus.

Progress in science requires challenging beliefs, admitting error and embracing open debate. But during the Covid pandemic, counter-narrative evidence was manipulated, sidelined and ignored, says Dr Clare Craig.

Real-world evidence consistently challenges the claims of 'The Science'. Yet persuading people of this was difficult throughout the pandemic. Dr Clare Craig takes a new approach to tackling the myths about COVID-19.

If the vaccines saved lives, why were Florida's Covid waves no smaller after the rollout than before? The same can be said for Israel and Bahrain, while low-vaccination comparators often fared better.

The new ONS data on deaths by vaccination status seem to have a bias such that deaths in the unvaccinated are more likely to be included, whereas deaths in the vaccinated and are more likely to be excluded.

Singapore has seen a similar rise in heart deaths to England despite having far less Covid before autumn 2021, meaning it cannot be blamed on Long Covid and putting more suspicion on the vaccines.

Severe Covid higher in the vaccine arm than in the placebo, two-thirds of the children dropped out, 97% of the Covid infections were ignored – why the FDA should not have approved the Pfizer vaccine for infants.

The ONS has released a report claiming "no evidence" of a link between vaccination and increased risk of death in young people. However, a closer look finds the proportion of heart deaths increases after each dose.

A study in Nature into heart problems after Covid finds they are much worse in the vaccinated – but this important finding is hidden in the appendix.

by Dr Clare Craig FRCPath On February 1st the Oxford Vaccine Group published their latest findings on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. While the findings are encouraging, the way they have been interpreted is questionable. The study is underpowered for the conclusions that are being drawn from it and there has been extensive data mining undertaken retrospectively in an attempt to draw more powerful conclusions. They concluded that in the vaccinated group two thirds fewer people were infected. Despite admitting that they did not study transmission, they still commented on it. The conclusions reached were the overall percentage testing positive was 54% lower “indicating the potential for a reduction of transmission”. The 54% figure was deduced from positivity including asymptomatic positives. This is not a reasonable conclusion to draw on two counts. They have assumed that asymptomatic positives are a major source of transmission and there is minimal evidence to support that assertion; and they failed to account for false positive test results. Asymptomatic positives were looked for only in the UK participants. They have not stated how often these people were tested, but it can be inferred that they were tested 10 times each on a weekly basis for follow up from day 22 to day 90. That is 82,070 tests. A remarkably low false positive rate of 0.16% would be...