Do critics of the race report have any actual arguments?
I guess the authors of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities didn’t agree to the job for a quiet…
Is AstraZeneca’s Covid jab effective against the South African variant?
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been under attack ever since the results of its phase three trials were announced in December.…
Is Boris right about a third wave?
Covid deaths fell to 17 on Sunday, the lowest daily figure since 28 September and no higher than the levels…
Why the UK shouldn’t engage in vaccine nationalism
There is a big, big hole in Ursula von der Leyen’s strategy of threatening to ban exports of the Pfizer…
Don’t blame the EU for the latest Covid vaccine clash
Far from subsiding, as it seemed to be doing last week, the European war over the AstraZeneca vaccine has intensified.…
How worried should we be about a third wave?
At the beginning of the year, Boris Johnson and his advisers were at pains to tell us that by spring…
Is it time to measure Covid differently?
According to government figures the toll of Covid 19 so far has been 124,419 deaths (if you define a Covid…
Taking office
Is now the time to invest in commercial property?
How worried should we be about the Brazilian variant?
How worried should we be about the news that P1, one of the two Brazilian variants of Sars-CoV-2, has been…
Back to Blair
Why is the former PM driving Covid policy?
Why do old people have fewer antibodies after the vaccine?
The UK policy of delaying second doses of the Pfizer vaccine has been criticised by some as risky, with Pfizer…
Face masks in schools: a note on the evidence
Secondary-school children returning to school from 8 March will be required to wear masks in classrooms, at least for several…
Covid cases have collapsed
Last month, Imperial College’s React study claimed that new cases of Covid were static or even rising slightly. This contradicted…
Why are so many health workers turning down the vaccine?
On Saturday the government hit its target of administering a first vaccine dose to 15 million of the highest-risk groups…
Keep the change
Covid is fuelling the anti-cash crusade
How effective are the Covid vaccines?
Reports have filtered through this morning about Public Health England’s assessment of the efficacy of the two vaccines so far…
Can we boost immunity with the vaccines we have now?
What to make of the news this morning that Oxford University is to ask for volunteers to take part in…
Can ‘surge testing’ get new variants under control?
A year on, in one sense we’re pretty well back to where we started — with the government attempting to…
One year after Brexit, Britain is reaping the benefits of independence
A year ago today Britain awoke to a rather muted celebration – which seemed to consist largely of a bubble…
Could this drug offer immediate protection from Covid-19?
When Donald Trump returned to the White House after a brief spell in hospital with Covid-19 last October he made…
Is the virus retreating?
Imperial College’s React study was in the news again this morning. The latest instalment swabbed 167,642 people between 6 and…
Is this the key to understanding Covid immunity?
Just how strong an immunity do Covid patients develop after they have acquired the infection and how long does it…
Has the current wave peaked?
Yesterday, the news was dominated by Imperial College’s React study which suggested – in contrast to the fall in recorded…
Is the one shot jab a game changer?
The UK’s decision to lengthen the gap between first and second doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines has been…
Why the EU’s vaccine strategy is failing
What a joy it would be still to be in the EU. We could, for example, be part of the bloc’s…
