When Gavin Newsom debates Ron DeSantis Thursday night on Fox News, voters might finally hear a serious discussion of an issue that most politicians have wanted to forget: the disastrous mistakes of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Angela McLean, the Government's Chief Scientist, told the Covid Inquiry that the U.K.'s 'circuit breaker' lockdowns in 2020 cut Covid infections. That's not what the data show, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Michael Gove has told the Covid Inquiry he became convinced lockdown was needed to counter the "man-made" coronavirus due to material from "friends outside Government", adding to the picture of why the world locked down.
U.K. ministers are facing accusations of a cover-up as it has been revealed that soldiers spied on critics of the Government's Covid response, including David Davis and Peter Hitchens.
The Government sidelined and then shut down its ethics committee after it tried to intervene on the vaccination of children, it has emerged in a scandal that raises serious questions about the Government's Covid response.
Nick Rendell digs into the evidence to expose once more the lie that locking down sooner would have made any difference – a claim that seems to be taken as read by the Covid Inquiry.
Lockdown was necessary to prevent an "extraordinarily high loss of life", Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry today, despite Sweden long ago exposing such a claim as palpable nonsense.
Repeatedly in the Covid Inquiry it is claimed that 2020's Eat Out to Help Out scheme drove a second Covid wave. But the evidence for this just isn't there, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
Dr Thomas Crew marks the passing of a giant of the German resistance against Covid tyranny: Gunnar Kaiser, who has died from cancer at the age of 47.
After a few months of the Hallett pantomime, it's quite clear that the Covid Inquiry is not about evidence-based policy. Time to put it out of its misery, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
