The UKHSA Vaccine Surveillance Reports have published vaccine effectiveness estimates since May 2021, but the estimates have slipped down and down with each passing month. How effective are the jabs really?
The Government started out publishing the raw vaccine data, presumably in the belief they would support the narrative. It wasn't long before it got a nasty surprise as infection rates in the vaccinated soared.
An ex-WHO scientist has claimed Omicron BA.2 has an R0 of 12, making it as infectious as measles, the most infectious disease known. But what do the data show?
PHE's latest technical briefing on the variants of concern has some key data on the performance of the vaccines.
Positive Covid tests fell again today, both compared to yesterday and compared to last Saturday, making it the tenth day in a row reported infections have dropped week-on-week. Can we go back to normal now, please?
The data in the latest technical briefings from PHE suggests that vaccine effectiveness against infection collapsed during the recent Delta surge.
New data from Israel suggests the vaccines offer little protection against infection by the Delta variant, though protection against serious disease is stronger. This should be no excuse to continue restrictions.
The NHS estimates 66% of people aged 18-29 in England have received a vaccine. But PHE says the same figure is 59%. This is a difference of over 600,000 people. Don't they know?
Reports that the Delta variant is much more likely to reinfect than the Alpha variant are based on a study that does not look at T cell immunity or any real world reinfection rates.
New PHE data shows the Indian variant now only infects 10.7% of close contacts. This figure has never gone much above 15%. So why isn't COVID-19 a more infectious disease?
