Tag: Chris Whitty

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has told the Covid Inquiry he was "sceptical" about making Covid vaccines mandatory for healthcare workers and the decision was "100% a political one".

Minutes of key meetings held in September 2021 in which Chris Whitty and the UK CMOs overruled the Government's vaccine advisers to push through Covid vaccination of children have been released – and they're damning.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has finally conceded "we overdid it" on Covid restrictions. So why haven’t many of the architects of this disaster been held accountable, asks Isabel Oakeshott.

A new study from Oxford University has laid bare the terrible decision to vaccinate children against Covid. Chris Whitty should hang his head in shame, says Nick Rendell.

Wielding her newfound omniscience, Joanna Gray reveals five game-changing messages that would guarantee victory in the General Election for any party that adopts them, starting with 'Women cannot have penises'.

Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.

Prof Neil Ferguson is denying responsibility for lockdown, telling the Covid Inquiry that scientists only set out evidence for ministers. Yet his infamous March 2020 report stated that lockdown was the only option.

Nick Rendell digs into the evidence to expose once more the lie that locking down sooner would have made any difference – a claim that seems to be taken as read by the Covid Inquiry.

Patrick Vallance branded his Chief Medical Officer colleague Chris Whitty a "delayer", it has emerged, as the former Chief Scientific Adviser tells the Covid Inquiry future lockdowns must be "harder and earlier".

COVID-19 was not dangerous enough to justify cutting short vaccine trials as the vaccine had to be "very safe", Chris Whitty advised the Government in the early weeks of the outbreak, it has emerged.