The wide-ranging harms caused by unnecessarily delaying the decision on Christmas covid-19 restrictions are being felt by the whole country, says Mike Gill […]
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Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control
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Peter Roderick: Transparency in approving covid-19 vaccines
Transparency is generally regarded as essential for public trust in medicines, and likely to lead to better decision-making. Yet lack of transparency has been a hallmark of the regulation of […]
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The US now has vaccines, but no strategy on how to use them to defeat coronavirus
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Does football viewership lead to unexpected traffic accidents in Asia?
In early May 2019, I was invited to present my research at a university in Barcelona. At the time of my visit, FC Barcelona were playing Liverpool FC in a […]