Tag: COVID-19

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.

The number of deaths from Covid in the UK during the pandemic is impossible to determine because of the inconsistent definitions of what is meant by a coronavirus death, according to Oxford researchers.

A new lockdown analysis by David Campbell and Kevin Dowd, entitled "The Abandonment of Good Government in the COVID-19 Crisis” has been published in the Studies in Applied Economics series from Johns Hopkins University.

The UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry has launched a consultation on its terms of reference, which will close on April 7th. Daily Sceptic readers are encouraged to respond with questions that ought to be included.

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by David Livermore reacting to the Terms of Reference for the inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic. He thinks it's a curate's egg – good in part, not so good in others.

Being sceptical is one thing. Being just plain wrong is another. And those who deny the existence of viruses and the tenets of germ theory are wrong. Here's why.

Why have there been up to 28,000 additional heart attacks in England since May 2021? Data from ambulance trusts shed light on an alarming trend.

Britain's Omicron wave is fizzling out ahead of the planned ending of the final Covid rules next week, according to official data which show the outbreak is shrinking in terms of infections, hospitalisations and deaths.

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.

Deaths at the end of January were 9.3% below average. Why is the Government not joining countries like Denmark in reclassifying COVID-19, repealing pandemic laws and lifting the state of emergency?