Tag: Public Health England

Why has Omicron infected far more people than earlier variants, despite arriving when almost everyone is vaccinated? Analysis of antibody data raises the possibility the vaccines themselves may be driving it.

It makes "little sense" to impose vaccine passports, an expert panel of scientists has told MPs, since Government data indicates that vaccinated people "are now more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated".

The latest study from the UKHSA finds vaccine effectiveness is declining, but much less than in other studies. Why is that?

Former senior ONS employee James Wells has reported his old employer to the UK Statistics Authority for making the misleading claim in a new report that the "risk of death is 32 times higher in the unvaccinated".

This week's UKHSA report shows infection rates twice as high in the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated – but dismisses its own data as biased. Why, though, has the agency not updated its VE estimates since May?

Cambridge statistician David Spiegelhalter – assisted by the Times – joins calls for the UKHSA to stop producing "completely unacceptable" data showing infection rates higher in the vaccinated.

The latest PHE vaccine report sees unadjusted vaccine effectiveness hit minus-109% in people in their 40s, with older age groups not much better.

The latest PHE report shows infection rates in the vaccinated well above those in the unvaccinated in the over-40s. For how long can governments ignore the truth that vaccine passports and mandates are pointless?

'Fact-checking' organisation Full Fact has taken exception to the Daily Sceptic publishing estimates of vaccine effectiveness from PHE data. But as this correspondence shows, the errors are entirely theirs.

A new study in the Lancet finds that vaccine effectiveness against infection drops fast over five months – but protection against serious disease is more robust.