Government plans to end automatic one-third reduction for guilty pleas

Government plans to end automatic one-third reduction for guilty pleas if the suspect is ‘bang to rights’ before they get to court after outcry over sentences for PC Harper’s killers Govt. considering to scrap reduced jail sentences for ‘bang to rights’ criminals  Follows backlash after one of PC Andrew Harper’s killers had sentence slashed  Ministers … Read more

Up to ONE-THIRD of all coronavirus antibody tests may come back as false negatives, study finds

Up to ONE-THIRD of all coronavirus antibody tests may come back as false negatives, study finds Researchers looked at 40 studies analyzing coronavirus antibody tests, which determine if someone has previously been infected Sensitivity rates, meaning the rate at which tests come back positive, ranged from 66% to 97.8% This means between 2.2% and more than … Read more

One-third of Americans say they WON’T get vaccinated against the coronavirus, new survey finds

More than 30 percent of Americans say they won’t be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus once a jab is developed, a new survey suggests. The report, from PR firm Bospar, found that one-third of adults did not trust being immunized against the virus that has killed more than 69,000 in the US.   Among age groups, … Read more