Category: UK
Dr John Campbell: Pause the mRNA Covid vaccines
Dr John Campbell, one of Youtube’s most popular presenters, has called for a pause in the administration of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. More...
It’s Britain’s third-largest Covid wave ever, and it’s still climbing…
New figures out today from UK Covid app ZOE show there are currently 3,092,451 symptomatic cases of Covid-19 in Britain, making it the third-largest Covid wave ever, and the wave is still growing. More...
WAPO: Vaccinated people who never had Covid at least three times as likely to be infected as unvaccinated with prior infection
“A Lancet study found that those who were vaccinated but never had covid were four times as likely to have severe illness resulting in hospitalization or death compared to the unvaccinated who recovered from it.” More...
Nearly 2.5 million symptomatic Covid infections reported in the UK
The UK ZOE Covid tracker is showing that there are nearly 2.5 million symptomatic Covid infections in Britain, a figure that has been rising steadily for weeks. More...
Recombination potential between SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV
A June 2021 preprint looking at the potential for a MERS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 recombination event is receiving a lot of social media attention today following rumours of MERS-CoV/SARS-CoV-2 infections at the World Cup in Qatar. More...
OurWorldinData records massive rise in UK Covid cases
It looks like another OurWorldinData glitch, but it’s worth recording just in case it isn’t. More...
UK: Covid on the rise in FIFTH wave of the year
The UK ZOE app is showing Covid cases are once again on then rise in what would be the fifth wave of 2022 in the UK. More...
BF.7: Another contender for global domination
The XBB and BQ.1 variants have recently been making headlines, but another SARS-CoV-2 variant, BF.7 has been closely tracking their success across the globe. More...
Hospitalized Covid-19 patients have 118 times greater risk of death than outpatients
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were at dramatically higher risk for death, a blood clot in a vein, heart failure, and stroke within 30 days. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 may have originated as an infectious clone assembled in vitro
A new preprint out today finds that SARS-COV-2 has “a synthetic fingerprint unlikely to have evolved from its close relatives.” More...