I'm too hot and tired to ponder the numbers, but all those pauses and restrictions on the use of vaccines back in the spring are looking like particularly stupid decisions now. (View Post)

AZ is the cheapest, easiest to use, more or less as effective as the other excellent vaccines, and may well give the most enduring immunity (according to that paper in Nature last week), but because … (View Post)

Half the point, maybe more, of vaccine passports is to make the vaccine reluctant think "I'd better get a vaccine". In a way the scheme works best if it's not needed. Hell if the … (View Post)

The Imperial College report which drove the initial response specifically warns about the risk of prematurely using lockdowns. For mitigation you have to start the lockdown based upon when you think … (View Post)

A similar proposal seems to have worked in France to encourage people to get jabbed, it's quite possible that we have simply seen what France has done and thought "we should try that". (View Post)