The lockdown is damaging the economy, which in turn will cause poverty, health issues and premature death for countless people. We must not sleep walk into this, distracted by petty news stories of advisors who have fallen from grace.

17th Century Tulip Mania - forget the gossip, we want to understand …

Like many illnesses, Covid is deadly. It is important to understand how deadly it is so our reactions to it are proportionate.

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Across Europe, Covid only kills the under 60's in very small numbers. For example in Italy which has had a relatively high number of deaths overall, less than 3% were under 60 years old. In England and Wales the corresponding percentage is around 7%. This difference shows up …

The Government should not place too much confidence in any one model, or …

The COVID-19 Response Team led by Professor Neil Ferguson, has been a major influence on UK Government COVID-19 policies.

Imperial College model predictions have influenced UK government COVID-19 policies without sufficient challenge and peer review. This is surprising given past forecasting failures and the enormous costs of the policies in …

Thinking about the current COVID-19 pandemic and what policies we should ask governments to pursue is not a simple problem. It involves lots of big numbers and trade-offs over time. These are things that we are not instinctively good at.

Stability issues of RT‐PCR testing of SARS‐CoV‐2 for hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed with COVID‐19

False negative results from the standard test for COVID-19 mean that more people probably have the virus than might be expected. This would mean that a smaller proportion of the total is …

People older than 65 represent 18% of the population but 93% of those who have died from COVID-19 - it is especially older people who are dying "with" COVID-19

The office for National Statistics has provided a breakdown by age of who died "with" COVID-19 in week ending 2020-03-20, together with …

Events in Italy, where emotionally driven over-reactions to events have caused more additional deaths, may reflect a bigger global pattern, where reason has lost to hysteria.

Good article drawing upon Italian experience and explaining, among other things, how emotional overreaction to circumstances can be deadly.

"The decision to transfer patients …

Corona: creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests

The widespread test for the COVID-19 virus is called the PCR

Jon Rappoport argues with a well sourced article that, according to the WHO's own technical information a lot, to say the least, is unsatisfactory about the PCR. If true …