Watch a Government Minister admit to Dan Hannan that the Covid vaccines did not prevent transmission, prompting Hannan to ask: "So why the hell did we force them on to young people? Why did we insist on vaccine passports?"
Nick Rendell senses a turning of the tide in people’s perception of the vaccines and the pandemic in general, and suggests some ways to broach the topic of vaccines without imbuing unproductive alarm.
An ex-WHO scientist has claimed Omicron BA.2 has an R0 of 12, making it as infectious as measles, the most infectious disease known. But what do the data show?
Up to a third of people who tested positive for Covid by PCR test were not contagious and did not need to self-isolate, a new study led by Oxford scientists suggests.
The new parliamentary report on Covid repeats the claim that locking down a week earlier would have saved tens of thousands of lives. This is contradicted by the data which shows infections peaking before lockdown.
Vaccine passports will be introduced with a weeks notice if infections don't stay low this winter, and we could see the return of mask mandates as well as of a whole new lockdown, the Government has announced.
There are now more infections in the vaccinated than in the unvaccinated for the first time, according to ZOE data. But why has the graph suddenly disappeared?
Time for governments to abandon the idea that vaccination provides protection against infection, and thus any notion of vaccinating people to protect others or conferring special privileges on the vaccinated.
Lockdown sceptics are criticised for denying that reducing contact between people reduces transmission. However, this doesn't allow for the fact that reducing exposure does not greatly reduce infection risk.
The average age of newly infected Brits has fallen from 41 at the beginning of the year to just 29 – the lowest average age recorded yet.
