Category: UK
UK NERVTAG: Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 10 February 2022
UK SAGE NERVTAG have released an update of their long term evolution predictions for SARS-CoV-2 in a paper entitled “Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences? More...
UK: February risk assessment for the BA.2 Omicron strain
The February 2022 risk assessment for the BA.2 strain from the UKHSA. More...
UK: Second Deltacron recombinant reported – Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1
Another Deltacron variant has been reported in the UK today, this one combining the Delta variant AY.4 and the Omicron variant BA.1. More...
UK Covid dashboard figures “totally misleading and should be abandoned”
The head of the ZOE Covid app in Great Britain, Tim Spector, took aim at the UK government’s Covid dashboard figures today, saying they are “totally misleading and should be abandoned”. More...
Preprint: Evidence of widespread data tampering in Covid-19 records
“Screening all countries in the WHO dataset for evidence of underdispersion yields 21 country with statistically significant underdispersion. More...
UK SAGE: Four scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic
UK SAGE have recently published a document outlining four different scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic in Britain. More...
USA: Deltacron recombinant – BA.1.1 collides with AY.119.2 – *1 UPDATE*
A second Deltacron recombinant variant derived from the Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 strains was announced by the UK earlier this week. More...
Deltacron lives! Recombination between Delta and Omicron confirmed in the UK
The UKHSA have confirmed they are monitoring a recombinant variant of Delta and Omicron in the UK. More...
UK: Prince Charles reinfected with Covid-19
Prince Charles has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating. More...
Scotland: Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status, January 2022 *1 UPDATE*
Scotland’s latest information dump on cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status continues to show a big disparity between unvaccinated patients and those that have been double and triple jabbed. More...