Reform Might be About to Wipe Out the Tories
3 May 2024
by Will Jones
News Round-Up
4 May 2024
by Toby Young
We're publishing on original essay today by Dr. Lee Jones, a reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, who argues that trying to suppress a virus that has an infection fatality rate of 0.05% for the under-70s is pointless.
Boris Johnson warned today against "premature conclusions" from falling cases, saying Covid is "still a very dangerous disease". Prof Neil Ferguson disagreed, however, saying we'll soon have the pandemic "behind us".
The data in the latest technical briefings from PHE suggests that vaccine effectiveness against infection collapsed during the recent Delta surge.
New data from Israel suggests the vaccines offer little protection against infection by the Delta variant, though protection against serious disease is stronger. This should be no excuse to continue restrictions.
A reader tells us of her shock to discover that the Christian organisation she supports, United Beach Mission, is requiring the young people who participate in its summer activities to be vaccinated.
The NHS estimates 66% of people aged 18-29 in England have received a vaccine. But PHE says the same figure is 59%. This is a difference of over 600,000 people. Don't they know?
Our leaders should be ashamed of themselves for how they have abused young people, their trust, and jeopardised their health and strangled their aspirations these past 16 months.
The ninth of our regular round-ups of Covid vaccine safety reports and news from a group of medical doctors to inform the debate on vaccination.
COVID-19 poses almost no risk to young people. Rather than trying to strong-arm every last 18 year old into getting a vaccine they don't need, why not donate our left-over vaccines to elderly people in other countries?
A new study in the Lancet finds that adverse events are 400% more common in real world patients than in trial participants for a standard blood pressure drug, calling the reliability of all drug trials into question.
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