Back in 2022 and 2023 when Covid travel restrictions and vaccine passports were all the rage Dr Roger Watson published his country-by-country guide. Now, in 2025, he takes a look to see if any are still at it.
Medical ethics are vital and should be non-negotiable in a civilised society, including during an emergency. But sacred principles of bodily autonomy and informed consent were glibly cast aside during the pandemic.
Prof Carl Heneghan has been called to give evidence to the Covid Inquiry, but wonders what the point is if it has already decided critical questions such as the efficacy of mass Covid testing.
It doesn't look good for balance or evidence when the COVID-19 Inquiry is asking for lateral flow tests and face masks, says Laura Dodsworth. No inquiry would be better than this inquiry.
The 2015 Zika panic, like the 2020 Covid panic, resulted in extreme global over-reaction. Yet when the smoke cleared it turned out there was no microcephaly epidemic. But the world just moved on and forgot.
The Handball World Cup has demanded that all players be triple vaccinated, tested daily for Covid and quarantined for five days if positive – and the players are threatening legal action.
Is it too much to expect that someone in a position of authority will announce that the alleged threat from monkeypox is over, asks Dr Roger Watson.
The first diagnostic test for Long Covid is to launch this month, detecting the Covid spike protein persisting in white blood cells. But can it distinguish it from 'Long Vaccine'?
Business and current affairs magazine the Economist has suggested that instead of treating Covid like the flu, we should start treating the flu like Covid.
Banking corporation HSBC has reintroduced daily testing and masks in its New York office after a rise in reported Covid infections, in an ominous sign that people aren't leaving the 'emergency' Covid measures behind.
