The SNP Deputy First Minister has admitted that the Scottish Government has no evidence for whether its vaccine passport scheme reduces Covid transmission.
Retired Professor of Biology Richard Ennos has written to the Scottish Government expressing his concern at the high level of excess deaths this summer and raising the potential role of the vaccines in driving it.
Following the enforcement of Scotland's vaccine passport scheme, hospitality venues have decided to close early following a sharp decline in footfall.
It's not been the most successful of starts for the Scottish Government's vaccine passport scheme which has suffered from technical glitches and is set to be ignored by businesses over the weekend.
A Scottish judge has dismissed a legal challenge to vaccine passports, saying the Night Time Industries Association failed to demonstrate that Nicola Sturgeon's plans are "disproportionate, irrational or unreasonable".
The Night Time Industries Association is seeking to launch a legal challenge against the Scottish Government's "deeply flawed and incoherent" plans to introduce vaccine passports at nightclubs and 'large' venues.
Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to introduce vaccine passport checks at nightclubs and other ‘large venues’ are not going without criticism, both from opposition parties and from Scottish businesses. But will this be enough?
by Dr. Sinead Murphy On August 26th, Professor Devi Sridhar, Chair of Global Public Health at University of Edinburgh and Covid advisor to the Scottish Government, tweeted this: https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1430905196075311106 Sridhar has been a high-profile contributor of allegedly scientific expertise throughout the Covid months; recently, she has featured in the Telegraph in support of the roll-out of the Covid vaccination programme to children of 12 years and above, as well as on the BBC’s Newsround, when she assured her school-aged audience of the ‘100%’ safety of the Covid injections when administered to children. Notwithstanding her tweet that her interventions in the Covid debate have been nothing more than simple explanations of what’s happening, many of Sridhar’s claims during the past year-and-a-half have been contestable at best, plain false at worst. The BBC quietly retracted Sridhar’s '100%’ safety statement, although not before it was broadcast in thousands of schools across the U.K., complete with that air of implicit authority that the BBC continues to confer on its content and contributors. In response to this, and possibly other ‘bumps', Sridhar is now running for cover. But it is a curious kind of cover, worthy of our consideration. "I’m just an academic," she is pleading, as if that condition comes with a great exemption, with indemnity for all fallout from inaccurate forecasts and implausible ...
Reported infections in England are rising in the most vaccinated age groups while they fall in the under 40s, and hospital admissions are getting older again. Is this a sign of declining vaccine effectiveness?
Scotland is at a "fragile and potentially pivotal moment", says Nicola Sturgeon who has once again refused to rule out the imposition of another lockdown due to rising 'cases'.
