Immunity to coronavirus may be far more widespread than thought
Two weeks ago I wrote hereabout a study by the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California, which found that…
The good and bad news about coronavirus
Finally we are getting a clue to the most vital statistic of the Covid-19 epidemic: how many people in Britain…
Are young people more likely to catch Covid?
It has been clear from the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic that there is a very steep age profile to…
Should Britain relax the two-metre distance rule?
Could the Government be about to relax the two-metre rule for social distancing? On Wednesday morning, professor Robert Dingwall, a…
Stanford study suggests coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu
One of the great unknowns of the Covid-19 crisis is just how deadly the disease is. Much of the panic…
Covid's knock-on effect on child deaths
The daily death toll has been a constant backdrop to the Covid-19 crisis. Would we ever have entered lockdown, would…
Why are some people being repeatedly tested for coronavirus?
Testing, the government keeps telling us, is the way out of the coronavirus lockdown. Soon, the Prime Minister assured us…
Could having a cold protect against Covid?
Could having a common cold protect you against Covid-19? The intriguing prospect has been raised by a team from the…
Israel’s antibody breakthrough
The Israeli government is reporting this morning that the country’s Institute for Biological Research has made a breakthrough in the…
Herd immunity may only need 10-20 per cent of people to be infected
Since mid-March there has been an assumption that herd immunity against Covid-19 would not be achieved until around 60 per…
Have we been fighting a very different disease to China?
One of the great mysteries of coronavirus is how the epidemic has become much more severe in Europe and North…
Coronavirus reinfection fears appear to be unfounded
A week ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a warning which, if it were true, would constitute the most…
Could Remdesivir eliminate the need for a coronavirus vaccine?
Over the past few weeks the government’s scientific advisers have indicated that the only real way out of the coronavirus…
How New Zealand won its fight with coronavirus
A milestone was reached today when New Zealand became the first country to declare that all community transmission of coronavirus…
Could this antibody test offer a route out of lockdown?
Finally, the government is to start antibody tests to see how prevalent infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus – which causes…
Is the lockdown costing lives?
Over the next few weeks we are likely to start hearing more and more about a growing death toll –…
Massachusetts study finds a third of sample have COVID-19 antibodies
Last week I reported here a Stanford University study which found that infection with SARS-CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19…
Will Sweden's social distancing-lite work?
The science of epidemiology relies a lot on modelling because, for obvious reasons, controlled experimentation would be unethical. But in…
Stanford study suggests Covid infections are 50 to 85 times more than confirmed cases
Another day, and yet more evidence has appeared that could indicate the number of people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the…
Leaked US document suggests Covid may be less lethal but more widespread
Have we been vastly underestimating the number of people who have been infected with Covid-19 and correspondingly overestimating its mortality? No…
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
Coronavirus, we have been warned many times, has brought scammers out in force. But lobbyists are not far behind. Their…
How many people have Covid-19 and don’t even know it?
Just how many of us have Covid-19 and are not even aware of it? It’s a question at the heart…
Spain and Italy have been abandoned by the EU
If ever there was a time for the EU to show the benefit of belonging to an economic bloc with…
Could measures we've taken to stop Covid-19 already be saving lives?
Perspective is a bit in short supply at the moment but if you want a brief respite from the onslaught…
How worried should we be about coronavirus?
Coronavirus may be more widespread than we think – and less deadly
