Hospital rates falling across Europe Across Europe, the latest data from ECDC (link) and Gov.UK (link) shows that hospitalisation rates...

Our battle with probability We struggle with probabilities. Casinos and bookies take advantage of our weakness, while insurers protect us...

Relaxing in a vaccinated world Last week the media was awash with reports that the success of the vaccination programme in the UK may...

The prospect of international travel is looming for UK nationals from 17 May, under a proposed traffic light system that determines what...

At the start of the pandemic, public health officials and policy makers were concerned about “behavioural fatigue” or the concept that...

On 25 March, President Biden set a revised target of 200 million vaccines administered within the first 100 days of presidency (more). As...

The Gov.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) dashboard (more) provides a daily update on numbers of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalisations and...

As of April 5, the 21st Century Cures Act prevents electronic health record (eHR) providers from blocking information in the USA (more)....

Whilst the pandemic has thrust science into the centre stage, not all researchers have benefitted equally from the increased attention....

Third wave hits Europe Just as the UK takes tentative steps back from the lockdown that started at the beginning of the year, others in...

Tribal attitudes to COVID19 restrictions A study of 20K adults into compliance with different NPI (non-pharmaceutical interventions) at...

Repercussions of limited capacity Just over 500 million vaccines have now been administered. Big Pharma has estimated that between 9.5...

Contrasting patterns across Europe as the UK re-introduces the "Rule of 6" outdoors, whilst France announces a third national lockdown...

The emergence of three different 501Y variants in 3 different continents may reflect intense selective pressures towards immunity evasion...

The COVID-19 Social Study has been tracking changes in the quality of sleep since the start of the pandemic, led by Dr. Elise Paul at...

Activity data from NHS Digital for January 2021 in Figure 2.2 illustrates how the number of elective procedures fell as demand from COVID...

The most recent data released from the Coronavrius (COVID-19) Infection Survey up to 14 March (based on blood samples taken from home...

For the last two months, the MHRA has been producing a weekly summary of Yellow Cards linked to COVID-19 vaccines - the early warning...

mRNA driving future cancer therapeutcs Thanks to Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, discussion of mRNA vaccines became mainstream in 2020. ...