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.
Unlike SAGE's Prof Graham Medley, Sweden's Dr Anders Tegnell provides his Government with scenarios other than the worst case.
Throughout the pandemic, those in favour of more restrictions have argued that restrictions drive behaviour and behaviour drives infections. Yet rising mobility frequently coincides with falling case numbers.
The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.
A leaked NHS report claims that hospitals in London are “likely to become overwhelmed due to rising Covid demand in the next two to three weeks”. Haven't we heard this before?
As SAGE makes the case for new restrictions and even the cancellation of Christmas, Fraser Nelson probes SAGE modeller Graham Medley on Twitter on why SAGE's models are so often pessimistic and wrong.
A YouGov poll for the Times, has revealed that a majority of the British population are opposed to further Covid restrictions. Finally!
We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a a pharmaceutical company exec looking at the effect of 'Plan B'-like measures in Scotland and Wales and concluding they will make zero difference to omicron's impact.
The Office for National Statistics has reported that the number of alcohol deaths increased at a record rate during 2020, with a rise in alcohol consumption observed over the first lockdown.
A new study reviews 11 cost-benefit analyses of lockdown, all of which find that the policy did more harm than good. Results “strongly suggest that lockdowns do not have a favorable cost-benefit balance”.
