Do mask mandates work?
This week there was an update to a Cochrane review, which studies the way physical interventions can interrupt or reduce the spread…
The UK isn’t learning the right lessons from lockdown
This month, the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care published a Technical Report on the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK.…
What Covid coverage gets wrong
Throughout the Covid pandemic, the BBC’s coverage has strictly followed what is now known as ‘official science’ – with journalists…
Masks in schools: how convincing is the government's evidence?
Why has the government changed its mind and asked children to wear masks in school? When Plan B was announced…
How much do face masks actually help?
The increasingly polarised and politicised views on whether to wear masks in public during the current Covid-19 crisis hides a…
The dire effects of Italy's coronavirus lockdown
Locking down Britain sooner would have saved thousands of lives, according to Neil Ferguson. But while Ferguson’s claims have been…
Dying of neglect: the other Covid care home scandal
Poorly funded and understaffed, care homes were destined to fail
