Well, after being in two press briefings about why 16 and 17-year-olds will now be vaccinated, I'm none the wiser about why JCVI has changed their advice. Not convinced they know either.
Sarah Knapton 🐳
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Sarah Knapton 🐳
@sarahknapton
🐳 Science Editor at The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph/NUFC fanatic
- The government is refusing to tell me what models each of these lines represent. They have shown a graph at a national press conference that they are refusing to release the key for. It's extraordinary.
- Not gonna lie, I've seen better examples of exponential growth
- Interesting quote from Oxford's Prof James Naismith on masks - "The ONS survey results on prevalence shows that the Scottish and English approach to masking although formally different since July has made no meaningful difference to Delta."
- Hugely dispiriting to find women at The Telegraph are being paid 35 per cent less than men. And astonishing to hear it will take seven years to put right. Have sudden desire to throw myself under a horse.
- I’ve been pretty disappointed in this pandemic to see how politically biased much of the scientific commentary has been, rather than being based on the actual evidence.
- This graph looks scary, but bear in mind that at the peak in April around 33 per cent of tests were coming back positive, now it's about 1.7 per cent.
- Kemi Badenoch is anti-woke, loves Britain - and is not afraid to take on the ‘hateful’ Left
- Replying to @PhilipPullmanThis is such a silly and ill-informed comment. The whole country, press included excitedly embraced Meghan. Look at the wedding coverage. It's her and Harry's behaviour since that has caused the situation we find ourselves in.
- Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers
- Remember when Whitty said yesterday that Liverpool rates in over-60s were still rising - he's been forced to admit he was wrong
- Exclusive: Britain will pass Covid herd immunity threshold on Monday, UCL predicts
- Put simply, if you test more people, you'll find more cases.
- Sobering reading. Sage estimates of non-Covid lockdown deaths. Around 81,500.
