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The Great Barrington declaration, a dangerous ideology grounded in pseudoscience promoted by libertarians with vested interests has now embraced the government's policy as the 'focused protection' strategy they outlined.We shoul

The govt strategy on COVID-19 appears to be to “allow the disease to circulate in younger people where it’s not causing much harm” while protecting “the people who are really

Is this realistic? Vaccinating 54 million people (16+) means 108 million doses. To vaccinate these many people by autumn (Sept 22nd) - in 36 wks, we need to vaccinate 3

Thoughts on where we are in the UK right now with cases, and the new variant, and what this likely means for the future. And the focus of government solely

Given the vast swathes of evidence around this that has been available for months, it's amazing that government & some experts have continuously claimed that children don't contribute significantly to

I've been a hearing a lot about how children are more infectious *now* & contribute to transmission because of the B117 variant, but didn't before. This is a myth. Children

Thoughts on the briefing today, and the path ahead. While the govt has finally announced a national lockdown + schools moving to remote learning, the path ahead is likely going

Given the concerns raised about the delayed vaccine dosing regimen in the UK, I'm doing another post on this. This probably won't have all the answers, but will hopefully reflect

While we don't fully understand the role of children in transmission, we know that children get infected & transmit (older children likely with same or greater efficacy as adults). With

This is the exact problem with our government's thinking & response- despite this strategy of 'tolerating deaths' and half-way measures having spectacularly failed, it's quite amazing that our govt still

Really disappointed to see scientists furthering false narratives. Zoe is a *symptom* based tracker & doesn't capture *infection* or transmission from children. The ONS data clearly shows that the highest

I wrote yesterday about the spread of the UK B117 variant based on data up to the 13th Dec warning that it could become dominant across much of the UK

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