The campaign to beat the pandemic
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
Online rally to launch Zero Covid: the campaign to beat the pandemic. Dr Gabriel Scally (Independent SAGE, personal capacity) Janet Newsham (Hazards Campaign) Larissa Kennedy (President of the National Union of Students, personal capacity) Clare Rayner (Long Covid) Louise Regan … Read more
All the talk in the media is of “light at the end of the tunnel” following the news about the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine. While this development is indeed good news, we certainly aren’t at the end of the tunnel yet. Will … Read more
The National Hazards Campaign has endorsed the call for action to force the Tory Government to adopt a Zero Covid strategy to suppress the virus to save lives and livelihoods. Throughout the pandemic the Hazards Campaign has argued that unsafe … Read more
On Saturday 14 November we are taking part in a Day of Action to call for a Zero Covid Strategy. After the online rally we’ll be on the streets to spread our message. Here is our view on how to … Read more
On Saturday 14 November Zero Covid is holding a National Day of Action to highlight the need for a new approach to tackling Covid-19 in the UK. The message is simple: We don’t have to live with the virus, there … Read more
