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.
The Lockdown Files continue to bring out scandalous revelations about how pandemic management by WhatsApp was conducted. Here are some of the top stories from Wednesday.
The blame game starts as MHRA passes the buck, writing in an FOI reply that "all the Covid vaccine authorisation decisions were taken by the Government Minister". Time for MPs to turn up the heat on the regulator.
In the last year, there has been an excess of 21,841 cardiovascular deaths. The data suggest it isn’t caused by a fall in drug treatment. The Government should do better to get to the bottom of what is really driving it.
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are marking their own homework with their 'independent' report on lockdowns, and no surprises that they omit to highlight any of the glaring failures in the approach they took.
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
Boris, Hancock, Whitty and the rest who drove the lockdowns will never admit they were wrong as it would be psychologically devastating for them. But in time the world will silently resolve the measures were mistaken.
What we require is a clear acknowledgement that, with masks. our political leaders inflicted an intervention on the British people that was unethical, ineffective and harmful, and their commitment never to do so again.
In March 2020, Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said people should not wear face masks because they don't work. Then he said they might work a bit. Then, with no new evidence, he supported making them compulsory. Why?
In case Boris is tempted to ban attendance at football games later today, here is a compendium of the evidence that the risk of catching COVID-19 outside in the fresh air is very low.
