How New Zealand won its fight with coronavirus
A milestone was reached today when New Zealand became the first country to declare that all community transmission of coronavirus…
Could this antibody test offer a route out of lockdown?
Finally, the government is to start antibody tests to see how prevalent infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus – which causes…
Is the lockdown costing lives?
Over the next few weeks we are likely to start hearing more and more about a growing death toll –…
Massachusetts study finds a third of sample have COVID-19 antibodies
Last week I reported here a Stanford University study which found that infection with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19…
Will Sweden's social distancing-lite work?
The science of epidemiology relies a lot on modelling because, for obvious reasons, controlled experimentation would be unethical. But in…
Stanford study suggests Covid infections are 50 to 85 times more than confirmed cases
Another day, and yet more evidence has appeared that could indicate the number of people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the…
Leaked US document suggests Covid may be less lethal but more widespread
Have we been vastly underestimating the number of people who have been infected with Covid-19 and correspondingly overestimating its mortality? No…
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
Coronavirus, we have been warned many times, has brought scammers out in force. But lobbyists are not far behind. Their…
How many people have Covid-19 and don’t even know it?
Just how many of us have Covid-19 and are not even aware of it? It’s a question at the heart…
Spain and Italy have been abandoned by the EU
If ever there was a time for the EU to show the benefit of belonging to an economic bloc with…
Could measures we've taken to stop Covid-19 already be saving lives?
Perspective is a bit in short supply at the moment but if you want a brief respite from the onslaught…
How worried should we be about coronavirus?
Coronavirus may be more widespread than we think – and less deadly
Coronavirus’s first victim? Money
The first victim of war, they say, is truth. The first victim of coronavirus, by contrast, is fiscal discipline. Yesterday,…
Market hysteria is not all down to coronavirus
Is this really about a virus? Oil has plunged 30 percent, the S&P Index seven percent. What is happening on…
Donald Trump’s ‘hunch’ about coronavirus is likely correct
Donald Trump is in the soup again, this time for appearing to reject the World Health Organisation’s estimate for the death…
Could coronavirus really trigger the next crash?
It’s a bloodbath in the markets, but by how much could the real, global economy be affected by the coronavirus…
The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria
The most dangerous thing about coronavirus is the hysteria
Coronavirus could be ‘black swan event’ that costs Trump the presidency
Donald Trump is, as we know, a noted germophobe. It would be richly ironic, then, if he missed out on…
The police are in thrall to Extinction Rebellion in Cambridge
When I read that police were invoking emergency powers at an Extinction Rebellion protest in Cambridge I thought: about time,…
The government’s plans for a pandemic are both reassuring and alarming
How prepared is the UK for a pandemic?
Boris should take back control from the House of Lords
I imagine that in recommending Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke for peerages, Boris Johnson sees himself in engaging in a…
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
In contrast to prophets of doom, who get invited to Davos, asked to address the UN and are able to…
Climate change isn’t responsible for Australia’s hailstorms
It was pretty inevitable that once rain finally started to fall in South Eastern Australia, extinguishing some of the bushfires…
Forget moving the Lords – lets have an elected senate instead
In two weeks’ time, we will finally escape the European Union, freeing ourselves from its monumental waste. Waste, that is,…
David Attenborough is making the same mistake as Greta Thunberg
It wasn’t so long ago that Sir David Attenborough came across as a calm voice of reason. His much-admired documentaries…
