We're republishing in the Daily Sceptic the latest report by James Ferguson, a financial analyst, who argues – quite convincingly – that not only is Omicron considerably milder than Delta but also less transmissible.
Dr. Jenny Harries, the Head of the U.K. Health Security Agency, has declared that New Year's Eve events could still be cancelled in order to prevent the Omicron variant from causing staff shortages.
We're publishing a guest post by our in-house doctor, formerly a senior NHS medic, about the hospital data released this afternoon. Does it support the claim that there's an Omicron tsunami heading our way? Er, no.
According to this analysis by MailOnline's Senior Health Reporter, 65% of new Covid patients were admitted to hospital for something other than Covid and only tested positive after they'd been admitted.
The alarmist claims of Neil Ferguson and his modelling team at Imperial College have fuelled vaccine scepticism and led to needless lockdowns being imposed all over Europe, according to several leading scientists.
This is a pivotal moment. If Boris holds his nerve, refuses to impose any further restrictions and the Omicron outbreak burns itself out of its own accord, the spell cast by SAGE over the nation could finally be broken.
The U.K. Health Security Agency, the successor organisation to Public Health England, is about to publish its first detailed analysis of Omicron which suggests it causes milder disease than the Delta variant.
In the latest episode of London Calling, the topics are the Omicron panic, the landmark free speech victory in the Court of Appeal, fox hunting, QPR and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Modelling by Neil Ferguson has forecast up to 5,000 Omicron deaths a day this winter unless restrictions are tightened. The fact that he's got nearly every previous forecast wrong doesn't mean he won't be taken seriously.
Schools have begun moving to "remote learning" for the final week of term in spite of Boris saying children should remain in the classroom unless it is a “public health emergency”. Why? Step forward the teaching unions.
