We think we know how viruses spread, but we don't, says Dr Clare Craig. Why do they come in regular waves that continue even on isolated submarines? Germ theory explains some of the evidence, but it's not the whole picture.
Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway, says Rebekah Barnett. And as with Marvel, its purpose is largely to create demand for merchandise.
Scientists tried to reinfect people with Covid but found it impossible, even when they ramped up the dose 10,000-fold, according to the latest results from the Covid challenge trials.
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
Here we go again. "Experts" (from Independent SAGE, naturally) have called for another Covid booster drive amid fears the new "concerning" Pirola Covid variant could overwhelm the NHS. Give it a rest, will you.
Hot on the heels of Eris, a new multiply-mutated form of Covid has shown up, nicknamed 'Pirola'. But Dr Chris Smith, writing in the Telegraph, is reaching for the paracetamol – not the panic button.
Pfizer has denied doing gain-of-function research but also said it was engineering the virus to express variant spike proteins. Now Dr. Paul Offit has implied that such work is indeed gain-of-function research.
Some sceptics have expressed doubts over the veracity of the blabbermouth Pfizer exec story, arguing it's staged. But that makes no sense and doesn't fit the evidence, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
Pfizer is “doing gain-of-function research to mutate Covid in order to create more vaccines”, a ‘Pfizer executive’ has revealed in explosive new undercover footage.
A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?
