News Round-Up
9 June 2023
How We Know Flu Really Did Disappear in 2020 and 2021
8 June 2023
by Will Jones
Perhaps the biggest barrier to ending the pandemic and its related theatre is the irrational fear that many people still have of the virus, a fear that ironically grips the vaccinated much more than the unvaccinated.
Why have the risk estimates produced by the QCovid risk calculator changed recently, and why don't they take into account the protection provided by previous infection?
We're publishing a guest post today by David McGrogan, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Business at Northumbria University, about the recent twitter rant of Stephen Reicher, a lockdown zealot who sits on SAGE.
Lockdown sceptics are criticised for denying that reducing contact between people reduces transmission. However, this doesn't allow for the fact that reducing exposure does not greatly reduce infection risk.
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