The U.K. Health Security Agency, the successor organisation to Public Health England, is about to publish its first detailed analysis of Omicron which suggests it causes milder disease than the Delta variant.
The fact that Omicron is not able to push Delta out completely, combined with the as-yet muted spike in positivity, is further evidence that natural immunity is holding Omicron off to a similar degree to Delta.
While UK reported infections have spiked this week, the positive rate is only slightly up, and South Africa has confirmed Omicron appears to be mild. Can we stop panicking yet?
Mixed news on vaccines from the UKHSA this week. Unadjusted VE is still negative for 18-70 year-olds. But boosters appear to be helping. On the other hand, this only shows how poorly two doses were performing.
Sajid Javid told MPs there are 200,000 new Omicron infections a day and implied there are 7,000,000 new coronavirus infections a week. But that's 16 times higher than the latest ONS estimate, which is not plausible.
The U.K. Health Security Agency has told the Government that “stringent national measures” should be introduced this month to fight the spread of the Omicron variant in order to protect the NHS.
We're republishing a post on the Daily Sceptic this morning by the German Substacker who calls himself 'Eugyppius'. Looks like he's been kicked off Twitter – shock!
New analysis shows that the UKHSA data showing higher infection rates in the vaccinated is not a result of using wrong population estimates, as critics had claimed.
Vaccine effectiveness remains negative in 30-79 year-olds and not much better elsewhere, according to the latest UKHSA data, despite the boosters beginning to kick in.
Could the Covid vaccines actually be making us more susceptible to COVID-19? Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn explores this issue for the Daily Sceptic.
