The NHS paid billions during the pandemic for private hospital beds that should have prevented the backlog but managers never bothered to use them. This is a scandal, says Dr. David Livermore.
Testing incoming visitors from China is pointless, argues Professor David Livermore. We cannot stop new Covid variants emerging in the West and quarantining infected Chinese travellers will make no difference.
A sharp drop in the number of diagnosed bacterial blood infections since the lockdown can only mean many are going unreported and untreated, leading to hundreds of avoidable deaths, writes Dr David Livermore.
Professor David Livermore has responded to Meta’s Oversight Board which has requested feedback on Facebook’s misinformation policy. He thinks the only items that should be flagged misinformation are egregious nonsense.
China has locked down its largest city, Shanghai, and quarantined in camps the 20,000 who've tested positive, but claims only 300 are symptomatic. Are the rest false positives, now confined with the infectious?
How many have died of COVID-19? Counting deaths is straightforward when a pathogen kills the healthy, as with ebola or plague. It’s not so easy when a pathogen primarily endangers the frail.
by David Livermore Vaccine passports or certificates – an idea we thought dead – have, regrettably, just been sleeping. With no little sense of irony, the Government is busy resurrecting them in time for “Freedom Day”. To be clear, I won’t be too put out if an immigration officer demands a SARS-CoV-2 vaccination certificate in future, especially if I’m travelling to a low-Covid country, like Taiwan. I doubt it will protect them in the long term, but I’m happy to be vaccinated and it doesn’t upset me any more than having to obtain a yellow fever vaccine and certificate. The issue is with using vaccine passports internally, to restrict access to large events and maybe even pubs and restaurants. Certificates will be used to discriminate against the unvaccinated, not all of whom belong to the awkward squad. They include the young, not yet offered vaccination, as well as those who can’t be vaccinated. But, set aside the ethical. Others have written extensively. What concerns me is the practical. Certificates are touted on the basis that ‘They will make concert-goers feel safe.’ Really? Perhaps the concert-goers should while away one of Wagner’s tedious half hours counting the odds. Suppose a concert is attended by 1,000 people, 900 vaccinated and 100 unvaccinated, which is about the current split. Assume also that vaccines...
