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I am more skeptical now than last year. I don't doubt that in the absence of treatment, vaccines were better than nothing. We now know that vaccines can't keep up with variants and covid will be with us for a very long time, we need herd immunity now.

agreed. However, the efficacy of covid vaccines need to be put into cost comparison with emerging treatments, not on the individual basis but on statistical basis because governments have spent and will still spend billions on them. Just look at the cost effectiveness of test and trace. We pay...

Relative risk: testing positive is roughly equal to having two jabs. Not vaccinated, not positive previously, 21 days or more before vaccination (reference group): 1 Vaccinated first dose AZ vaccine 21 days or more previously 0.71 Vaccinated first dose PF vaccine 21 days or more...

You can download the stats here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights Weekly age-standardised mortality rates for deaths involving COVID-19 by vaccination status, England, deaths occurring Week...

it will take a lot more than slow growth for that.

which tory MPs would you like to have those two posts?

I still like him better than his two predecessors (Hancock & Hunt). for education, I like Nadhim Zahawi better than Gavin Williamson.

I just walked into the vaccination centre. No booking. There was only a very small queue, a couple of people. They asked me for my NHS number and gave me the jab (Pfizer).

Please email support@wooshbikes.co.uk, Andy will help you sort it.

when you consider 9 out of 10 people may have come into contact with covid again and again and show no symptoms, it's difficult to separate the role of vaccines from natural exposure. I value the first two jabs but on the booster jab, if it wasn't offered, I would not be too worried. I think it...

they may have acquired 'herd immunity' from London underground.

I've had high hopes for the vaccines back in the spring but since the delta variant arrived, I felt in a sense being let down. I hope that the new covid pills are going to be as good as their makers claims.

: I am skeptical about repurposing any approved drug for treating covid. I know the strategy is legitimately pursued by a lot of scientists, that still does not convince me that the strategy is sound. Specifically about Ivermectin, the effective concentration of ivermectin in vitro to affect...

I support his view that the current crop of DNA and RNA vaccines are not good enough, certainly no better than the deactivated virus vaccines. So licensing them as vaccines push the boundary toward political expediency.

why? because common sense tells me not to trust experimental medicine until they are properly trialled. Until their acting mechanism is well understood, I treat all the studies with skepticism. If you are interested in the chemistry of antivirals, here are those that we mentioned in this...

it seems to me that OP knew already what he would do if BJ does not come to his rescue. Let's wait for the result of the by-election. I reckon Labour would take the seat from the tories.

Joe, I don't know much about antivirals so I can't have a sensible discussion with you on that. However, I know that a lot of antivirals do more harm than good. Molnupiravir is still going through trials at the moment. It's not the first time this government jumps the gun and licence an...

there is no chemical relationship between Molnupiravir (a derivative of cytidine) and Ivermectin (a macrocyclical lactone). Molnupiravir works like a virus made for viruses. During replication, viruses accept Molnupiravir same as the real cytidine, Molnupiravir creates so many faulty mutations...

I am diabetic so booster is a no brainer.

I was talking to a travel agent yesterday. They told me how messy it is dealing with covid pass on behalf of their customers. Israel's covid regulation is tougher than most.