The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor says the widely trailed tsunami of hospitalisations has not only not yet arrived after 'Freedom Day', but that we seem to be on the downslope of the ‘third wave’.
The report from round 13 of Imperial's REACT study is out, and it has some disappointing results on vaccine effectiveness and hospitalisations among the under 64s.
The number of new daily Covid cases in the U.K. fell to 21,952 today, the lowest it's been in five weeks. Meanwhile, deaths are up slightly compared to last Monday and hospitalisations are down.
56% of "COVID-19 patients" did not test positive until they were admitted to hospital. This highlights an important point: testing positive is not the same thing as having the *disease* COVID-19.
We're publishing an original essay on the Daily Sceptic by an academic economist looking in detail at whether the vaccine roll-out has reduced the hospitalisation of the over-60s testing positive in Scotland. Answer: No.
A reader of the Daily Sceptic (an academic economist) has analysed the Scottish Covid data and reached a depressing conclusion: Covid vaccination seems to offer the over-60s little protection from severe illness.
Researchers in Israel have found that Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of a hospitalised Covid patient dying more than seven-fold, suggesting that Vitamin D supplements may protect against COVID-19.
Infections are rising rapidly in Scotland, but have not translated into a large number of hospitalisations. The recent surge appears to be related to Euro 2020, with infections concentrated among men aged 15–44.
We're publishing a guest post on Lockdown Sceptics by our in-house medic, a former NHS doctor. Judging from the hospital data and the behaviour of ministers, we're now through the looking glass.
With topsy-turvy results for doses 1 and 2 and confidence intervals wide enough to drive a bus through, PHE's latest vaccine study leaves a lot to be desired.
