Tag: Variants

With only up to 10% greater transmissibility, the latest variant being reported in the news is nothing to worry about.

In early August, writing for the Daily Sceptic, Prof Anthony Brookes made some predictions about how the next few months would pan out. He got them all right, underlining the accuracy of his Covid picture.

Covid is unlikely to mutate into a much deadlier variant because there "aren’t many places for the virus to go", says the lead scientist behind the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.

Acknowledging that variants drive surges is not to buy into fear of 'scariants' but to see why peaks and falls have little or nothing to do with imposing or lifting restrictions.

See set out in a series of graphs the evidence that Covid surges are driven by the emergence of successful new variants.

The Government is launching its first antibody testing programme in which those who test positive for Covid will take antibody tests to help identify people's protection levels against different variants.

Brits who have had two doses of a Covid vaccine are as likely to spread the Delta variant as those who are unvaccinated, according to a new study. So why is the Government still considering introducing vaccine passports?

A panel of experts has told MPs that we should stop "frightening ourselves" with community testing because the Delta variant means there is no way of stopping Covid from spreading through the entire population.

We're publishing a piece on the Daily Sceptic today by Anthony Brookes, a Professor of Genomics and Health Data Science at Leicester, University explaining why SARS-CoV-2 variants infect populations in wave-like patterns.

The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor says the widely trailed tsunami of hospitalisations has not only not yet arrived after 'Freedom Day', but that we seem to be on the downslope of the ‘third wave’.