I note from the Covid numbers that the hospital patient total for England has stabilised over the last three days, and admissions appear also to have stopped climbing based on the most recent availab… (View Post)

On the first point, the Dutch had a substantial late Autumn Delta wave, before progressively tightening restrictions. It'll be interesting to see whether their Omicron case rate trajectory also … (View Post)

Point of order: I claimed that it was reasonable to assume that masks in schools were useless, not that it had been proven. Definitively proving the negative in these instances being somewhat difficu… (View Post)

Scottish schools went back - with masking in secondaries still in place - in mid-August, followed by what was, by the standards of the pre-Omicron era, a gigantic spike in the Scottish case rate in e… (View Post)

On restrictions: the Government has published its evidence for the value of masks in schools: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1044767/E… (View Post)