News Round-Up
24 April 2024
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.
No matter how often he's wrong, Professor Neil Ferguson is still making the rounds of broadcasting studios and the parliamentary estate brandishing his crystal ball. Click here for Mystic Meg's latest doom-mongering.
We're publishing a critique in the Daily Sceptic of the new paper in Nature by Neil Ferguson et al making the laughable claim that a lockdown in Sweden would have resulted in a two- to four-fold reduction in mortality.
Neil Ferguson et al have just published a paper arguing that had the UK adopted Sweden's approach to Covid, our death toll would be twice as high. But the paper is just flat out wrong, from the first sentence onwards.
Professors Sunetra Gupta and Paul Dolan have written a piece for the Telegraph pointing out that the lockdowns imposed across the world last year were based on faith, not evidence, and have had disastrous consequences.
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’.
Boris Johnson warned today against "premature conclusions" from falling cases, saying Covid is "still a very dangerous disease". Prof Neil Ferguson disagreed, however, saying we'll soon have the pandemic "behind us".
Ministers will announce today that only vulnerable children will be given Covid vaccines at first, but reports have already emerged that all children – vulnerable or not – could be called up by the end of the year.
There was a good letter in the Telegraph today co-signed by Lockdown Sceptics contributor David Campbell and his colleague Kevin Dowd blaming Imperial College's alarmist modelling last March for the pickle we're in.
A summer wave, a winter wave, the threat of new restrictions – Chris Whitty and Neil Ferguson were not holding back yesterday. But for all the doom and gloom, the signs are the summer ripple is already peaking.
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