FDA scientists say the Pfizer vaccine is effective and have recommended it for approval in the first piece of analysis before it will be officially green-lit. Documents released by U.S. regulators Tuesday confirmed that Pfizer and BioNTech´s COVID-19 vaccine was strongly protective against COVID-19 — offering the world´s first detailed look at the evidence behind … Read more
The Health Department was forced into a humiliating climbdown yesterday after accusing the Mail of ‘misleading’ readers. On Saturday we published a two-page analysis raising multiple questions about ministers’ handling of the pandemic and their use of data to justify draconian lockdown rules. We pointed out that Government predictions on potential fatalities were wildly inaccurate … Read more
Anger flared last night after the Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter account was used in an effort to rubbish a report challenging official scaremongering by analysing key facts about the coronavirus pandemic. Under the headline ‘Covid: What They Don’t Tell You’, a two-page article in yesterday’s Daily Mail raised multiple questions about the … Read more
Almost 20 NHS trusts in England are already treating more coronavirus patients than at the peak of the first wave, according to official statistics that come amid warnings hospitals across the country could run out of beds before Christmas. Trusts in hotspots such as Nottingham, Liverpool and Doncaster are seeing up to three times the number of Covid-19 … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus outbreak has slowed significantly since the start of the month, suggesting the latest suite of lockdown restrictions are successfully flattening the second curve of the outbreak. Infections were almost doubling every seven-to-eight days in September, which sparked widespread fears the country had sleep-walked into a second wave following a lull in transmission over summer … Read more
Half of England’s major university towns are already coming out of the other side of their coronavirus outbreaks, analysis of official data suggests. Major university towns, defined as having more than 20,000 students but excluding London, saw infections skyrocket at the end of September when students and teachers returned to education in their droves. The arrival … Read more
Apple and Tesla shares could surge by A THIRD over the year following their upcoming stock splits, new analysis suggests Tesla’s share price has risen more than fourfold to $2,000 since the year began Apple’s £1.5tn value is worth only modestly less than the FTSE 100’s £1.7tn value eToro found that after a stock split, mega-brands’ … Read more
William Shakespeare was ‘undeniably bisexual’, say researchers after analysis of love sonnets finds 27 were addressed to men and 10 to women Professor Sir Stanley Wells and Dr Paul Edmondon shared research for a book They say William Shakespeare was ‘undeniably bisexual’ within his love sonnets Previous critics said the playwright was gay despite his … Read more
Friendship is everything: Sicilian Mafia could be dismantled by using social network analysis to map syndicate members’ connections, study claims Criminal networks like the Mafia are hard for law enforcement to disrupt Researchers from the UK and Italy studied data on a real-life Mafia syndicate They report a way to pick the members whose arrest would be … Read more
Swathes of studies have shown a low prevalence of smokers in hospitals with Covid-19. If the findings are proven, scientists say it’s likely that it is not cigarettes – filled with thousands of harmful chemicals – that would offer a potential protection, but the nicotine that is beneficial. A theory flouted by scientists is that … Read more