Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson have taken it upon themselves to appraise the UKHSA's evidence for Covid restrictions. No wonder they didn't want to do it themselves, they say: it's a complete mess.
Well, it now looks as if the grandees are turning against each other, with Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser during Covid, accusing politicians of cherry-picking the science.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has finally acknowledged the lack of good evidence on the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs. But there are still no plans to rectify that, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
On Wednesday, the U.K. Health Security Agency quietly released a review which found there is no good evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns and other NPIs on Covid transmission. But still no word about harms.
A secret military-linked U.K. laboratory is making new variants of Covid and working on a vaccine for 'Disease X' in order to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks", according to the BBC.
Responding to a GB News interview with Dr Tom Jefferson, UKHSA claims that the evidence shows masks work. But that conflicts not only with the findings of the Cochrane Review but also with its own published evidence.
Births in England fell by 11.9% in 2022 compared to 2021, new official data from the UKHSA show. Worryingly, this coincides with the vaccine rollout.
While it's welcome that the JCVI has finally ended boosters for under-50s, the data the decision is based on are still skewed towards the vaccines. And why did it take three months to let us know?
Why do more and more figures from around the world show the vaccinated suffering from more Covid and more sickness than the unvaccinated? Neville Hodgkinson looks at the latest data from Australia.
SAGE and the UKHSA have decided to stop publishing projections of deaths and hospitalisations from COIVID-19 in an attempt to treat it the same way as other viruses.
