Tag: Second wave

Repeatedly in the Covid Inquiry it is claimed that 2020's Eat Out to Help Out scheme drove a second Covid wave. But the evidence for this just isn't there, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.

Mask-wearing had no discernible impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Europe during winter 2020-21 and may actually have increased mortality, a study has found.

The House of Commons’ report says that our first lockdown “should have come sooner”. But it ignores the risks of postponing the epidemic. Many countries that missed the first wave got hit even harder in the second.

A complaint against the BBC for broadcasting an interview with a matron at King's College London Hospital claiming she had a "whole ward" of children with Covid has been upheld. This is vindication for Lockdown Sceptics.

The conventional wisdom is that had Boris locked down a week earlier last March, fewer people would have died of COVID-19. But a Cambridge epidemiologist thinks the opposite is true: delaying the lockdown saved lives.

The Times has published the latest instalment in Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott’s new book, laying the blame for Covid's second wave at the feet of Chancellor Rishi Sunak. But is that fair?