The mass testing of healthy children is “invasive and unevidenced”, causes significant damage to children and needs to stop, scientists and clinicians have told MPs and Peers.
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.
The Dutch Government has said it will ease its COVID-19 restrictions from Wednesday despite record reported infections, which have come despite the restrictions and the country being 90% vaccinated.
Now that Covid restrictions are being rolled back, some are declaring victory over the miserable virus. Lockdowns, we are told, worked. Only a fool could argue otherwise. But this misses vital evidence.
Allison Pearson lists the most lunatic lockdown measures as she recalls being pilloried for being a lockdown sceptic, but increasingly her opponents are admitting she was right.
What kind of 'expertise' is it that focuses on one hazard to the exclusion of all others, and fails to foresee the numerous harms that the supposed 'solution' will cause?
Boris Johnson has apologised for attending a social gathering at No 10 during the U.K.'s first lockdown, saying he believed implicitly it was a work event. Will it be enough to save him?
The World Bank estimates there will 21 million fewer people in extreme poverty this year, compared to 2020. Why? One reason, the World Bank suggests, is that "the appetite for lockdowns has been smaller”.
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
The Question Everything Lockdown Summit took place in London yesterday and featured contributions from many of those who have featured prominently on this site over the past year, not least Toby and Dr Will Jones.
