In July the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) ruled out vaccinating most children from Covid-19 as the minimal health benefits of offering universal Covid-19 vaccination to children did not outweigh the potential risks. They approved vaccination for children aged 12 to 15 if they were in a high-risk group with those aged …
Since Covid-19 hit the shores of the United Kingdom back last year, it was the Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) who instigated the first national lockdown across the four nations. The Welsh Labour Government took over policies related to easing and imposing new restrictions and the data now suggests we need to learn to live with Covid-19 and have our own ‘Freedom Day’ in Wales.
Over the past 24 hours, the BBC news website has led with the headline ‘UK in early stages of third-wave – scientist’. But should we be panicking about a third wave right now? I am not so sure as we expect to see cases rise as more people mix and the critical data to focus on are hospitalisations and deaths, which remain low.
Since Dominic Cummings gave evidence at a House of Commons enquiry this week, pressure has been mounting on the Health Secretary in England, Matt Hancock, regarding care home deaths related to Covid-19. But what does the data tell us on what happened? The issue The criticism labelled at the UK Government is that they failed …
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