A recent Danish study has caused excitement by suggesting the AZ and J&J vaccines reduce non-Covid mortality including heart-related deaths. But this is very unlikely to be true.
A preprint study in the Lancet has analysed the mortality data from the Covid vaccine trials and found that mRNA vaccines increase the risk of heart-related deaths by up to 50%.
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
Deaths in England and Wales were 7.8% below the five-year average for the week ending January 7th, ONS data show, in the latest sign that the pandemic is coming to an end.
The Government has not released key details relating to the U.K.'s first recorded Omicron fatality, and has not even said whether Covid was actually the leading cause of death.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor discusses what we know so far about the Omicron Covid variant and sees little evidence of increased pressure on the NHS to date.
More vaccinated people appear to be dying from Covid than are officially counted. This is also likely to lead to vaccine efficacy being overestimated.
An NHS consultant claims in the Guardian that "in hospital, COVID-19 has largely become a disease of the unvaccinated". Yet Government data shows that 71% of hospitalised adults are vaccinated.
A new ONS study purports to show that just 1% of Covid deaths are in the vaccinated. Yet PHE data released this week shows the true figure for August was 70%.
We're publishing an update this morning from the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor in which he analyses the latest NHS hospital data. Conclusion: no need to panic.
