It's not just the spike protein (as I understand it). Firstly - they need to find a mutation where the spike protein can still do its job and be unrecognisable to the immune system. Should it pu… (View Post)

If we think our death-by-date figures are lagged, Sweden makes us look like nothing. At the best of times, it takes two weeks for the lag to catch up (I tracked it for a while when people were going … (View Post)

Well, that's only if everyone would otherwise have been hospitalised! Difficult to make any comparisons of efficacy with the data at hand, because we need to compare to the unvaccinated. Going b… (View Post)

Not from one dose, unfortunately. As well as the SIREN studies The Israelis have confirmed the above in real life results. (NB - the second dose hospitalisation figure has massive confidence interval… (View Post)

It was ill-considered, as he should well know exactly what message will be amplified out of that. Simply going with the message: "We still need to get to a certain level of vaccination before va… (View Post)