Day: 1 April 2021

A new study – the largest of its kind – has found that the Pfizer vaccine produces an "off the scale" immune response likely to protect against the Brazilian, Kent and Wuhan variants.

In yet another blow to the hospitality industry, the Government has announced that all customers at pubs, restaurants and cafes must provide contact details (either written or via the NHS Test and Trace app) on entry.

We're publishing an original piece today by David McGrogan, a Professor at Northumbria Law School, in which he recommends some books to help us understand how we ended up living under the plimsol of soft totalitarianism.

The Italian Government has mandated Covid vaccines for all health workers, warning that those who do not take the jab could lose their jobs at least until the end of the year.

A paramedic has written to Lockdown Sceptics to tell us about how through her job she encounters hundreds of sick people every day and hardly ever gets ill, despite never wearing a face mask before the pandemic.

The Government is planning a new poster campaign that will urge people – vaccinated or otherwise – not to hug. It is likely to say that if you "hug your grandchildren there is a chance you will infect people you love".

Professor of Psychology Ellen Townsend has appeared on the Planet Normal podcast to say how harmful lockdowns have been to children: “We’re putting adults first when we should be putting children first.”

The World Health Organisation has criticised Europe's Covid vaccine rollout as being "unacceptably slow". Only 16% of its population has received the jab, compared with 52% in the UK.

A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.

Why does Wikipedia's COVID-19 page claim 14% of infections are "severe" and 5% are "critical"? Worse, why does the US CDC say the same? Why aren't they following the up-to-date data, which puts global IFR at 0.15%?