Vaccines, variants, vitality and a crystal ball

Content Sections

• UK vaccination programme gets an A* from Public Health England
• Should we worry about emerging variants?
• What does the COG in the machine say?
• Expand your toolbox
• Back to the crystal ball

Last week we released an hour-long interview with the scientist and vaccinologist who first blew the whistle on potential problems with immune escape variants, Dr Geert Vanden Bossche. Not long after the video was uploaded to YouTube, with around 6,000 views in the bag, YouTube saw fit to label it ‘medical misinformation’ and deleted it from their server while giving us a 2-week upload ban. Fortunately, the interview can still be seen on Brighteon here.

Dr Vanden Bossche, as it happens, isn’t the only one concerned about variants, or the role that mass vaccination might be playing in driving more ‘variants of concern’. So is every health authority around the world. It’s just that health authorities are invested in the mass vaccination program and they don’t want the public to take their eyes off the ball, or the needle, to be more precise.