The campaign to beat the pandemic
Mike Downham 
On 22 June Nicola Sturgeon finally abandoned the policy of virus elimination, and on the 29 June told us that the virus cases had peaked. The next day the number of new cases rose again, and on 1 July broke … Read more
I am a retired doctor, having worked in the NHS with children and families, and as a researcher in respiratory virus epidemiology. In retirement I’m privileged that people feel free to talk to me about their experiences of illness, this … Read more
On 9 November Pfizer/BioNTech issued a press release to say that their Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. What that means is that only 10% of the people who caught the virus, after having been randomly injected with two doses of … Read more