Like a bunny boiler who refuses to die in a horror movie, the Covid jabs are back. Headlines trumpet the familiar narrative: ‘New sub-variant of Covid-19 wreaking havoc as epidemiologist encourages vaccinations amid rising infections.’ Tucked away in the copy is an admission by Deakin University epidemiologist Professor Catherine Bennett that ‘the variant doesn’t seem to cause more severe disease,’ it’s simply ‘more infectious’.