Tag: vaccination
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Evidence suggests vaccination does cut spread of Omicron
Earlier this week I noticed that some anti-vax propagandists have a new line of attack – they aren’t denying that vaccination protects you against severe illness from Covid, but they are saying that it is false to claim that vaccination limits the spread of the disease and hence its also wrong to insist that people […]
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Winning the evolutionary war?
Earlier this week I wrote that there appeared to be no evolutionary biological reason to think the corona virus would evolve at present to be less deadly. It’s starting to look like I was wrong. In fact it looks as though the vaccines have driven selection of changes in the virus’s spike (to evade vaccination-driven […]
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The long haul
Far too much debate in the UK about responding to SARS-CoV-2 has been about short-termist responses. So, for instance, just as every lockdown has begun to have real effect it has been lifted in the name of the economy. The result has been we are now in the longest lock-down of all, we’ve got the […]
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Honesty about vaccination
I am not medically qualified or a statistician or epidemiologist so this is not expert opinion, but I cannot help but feel that there has been a lack of honesty in the public discourse about what vaccination against covid-19 will achieve. First of all, I think the effort to find a vaccination will succeed and […]
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