With new daily infections declining among the unvaccinated while they surge among the vaccinated, it's time to stop arguing that children and all young people must be vaccinated and stop panicking over variants.
Reports that the Delta variant is much more likely to reinfect than the Alpha variant are based on a study that does not look at T cell immunity or any real world reinfection rates.
An anthropologist by background with no training in medicine, virology or immunology, Devi Sridhar has nonetheless become a go-to person for the broadcast media during the pandemic, and frequently gets things wrong.
Lockdown has been extended in Australia's largest city, Sydney, with what appears to be a decent level of support from locals due to fears over the Delta Covid variant.
Prof Tim Spector dismayed many of his Twitter followers by calling for the vaccination of children to combat the Delta variant. But his arguments ignore key risk-benefit concerns and anyway make no sense.
New PHE data shows the Indian variant now only infects 10.7% of close contacts. This figure has never gone much above 15%. So why isn't COVID-19 a more infectious disease?
We're publishing an original piece on Lockdown Sceptics by a retired Professor of Forensic Science and Biological Anthropology and an epidemiologist asking whether the recent case rises falsifies the seasonality hypotheses
PHE released their latest technical briefing yesterday which claims the Delta variant is 64% more infectious than the Alpha variant. But look closer and this headline finding is not all it seems.
Rising infections are blamed on the Indian variant that PHE now claims causes twice as serious illness and talk has turned to continuing with restrictions. We've been here before.
