On the criticism (much of it ill-informed) of the Sage figures and models: I think many people are forgetting the time factor. Even just a few days ago we knew a lot less about how the Omicron waves … (View Post)

LOL! Suggesting an extension to give time to get an agreement on getting Brexit done vaguely sanely makes you a 'die-hard zealot'? Err, I think I can easily see who the die-hard zealots wer… (View Post)

Latest CDC data by vaccine status: Unvaccinated: 451 cases per 100k Vaccinated: 134 cases per 100k Boosted: 48 cases per 100k Unvaccinated: 6.1 deaths per 100k Vaccinated: 0.5 deaths per 100k Boosted… (View Post)

A useful and moderately positive summary by the very level-headed James Ward on where we stand on Omicron: https://twitter.com/JamesWard73/status/1472991150936109062 (View Post)

One very encouraging thing (except for my place in the guess-the-maximum competition) is that we're not yet seeing any slowdown in the jabbing programme as a result of too many of the health wor… (View Post)