Nearly a year and a half after the country was locked down to protect the NHS, how is the NHS performing in managing the very condition that so threatened it?

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There is the as yet unproven (but not discounted) theoretical possibility that vaccination may be making the situation of ‘mutant variants’ worse.

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Rather than listen to conflicting views and reassessing her own in response, Professor Trish Greenhalgh has blocked HART and many of our members on Twitter.

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The notion of bodily autonomy is not one to be given up lightly. This is certainly true for a now endemic respiratory virus with an extremely low overall mortality rate for the majority of the population.

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Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- Johnson announces plan for vaccine passports
- What should we be scared of at the moment?
- Children’s vaccine advice changing by the day
- Drop the mask and be a force for good

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If you go without a mask, do so in the knowledge that you are acting as a force for good by making an important contribution to getting our lives back to some form of much-needed normality.

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Hospitalisations (with patients testing positive) have certainly been increasing but are at half the level predicted in the SAGE “central scenario” and are 17% lower than their most optimistic predictions.

Read more: hartgroup.org/pessimistic-forecasts

It is increasingly difficult to accept these contorted pronouncements masquerading as reasoned scientific discourse. This isn’t the thin end of the wedge, it is carving society up into opposing camps. Divide and conquer.

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It’s time for the UK to use Ct data to track the spread, protect the vulnerable and regain our lives.

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If you had a vaccine with an excellent short term safety profile, then waiting for long term data before vaccinating children would make sense, but given the known short term risks, it is hard to see how waiting for more information could change anything.

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Continued wearing will perpetuate the currently inflated level of anxiety many people feel about the prospect of returning to a normal lifestyle.

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The fact that alternative views are censored and suppressed and the people behind them attacked may be more reason to be worried than the forecasts themselves.

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Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- The myth that vaccination prevents transmission
- Cases dropping “puzzles” scientists
- Why we set up HART
- Summertime and there’s good news

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We make no apologies for asking questions, rejecting censorship and upholding long-established ethics. Our members will keep on volunteering their time, for as long as is needed.

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Any discrimination or coercion of any form aimed at those who choose not to be vaccinated is completely unsustainable.

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Headlines this week declared the fall in cases as confusing, baffling and puzzling. Few headlines acknowledged that it was in fact good news.

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Vaccine certification is highly coercive, threatening the loss of livelihood and the loss of freedom of movement. That is in no sense ‘free’ consent. It is considerable duress.

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HART believes in freedom of speech and we enjoy healthy debate where no topic is off the table — but we take care in our public communications to only present information that can be backed up by compelling evidence.

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Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- Vaccine to be offered to 16 and 17 year-olds
- Nothing unethical about covert ‘nudges’, says BPS
- Extreme SAGE predictions on the effects of variants
- Children continue to be let down

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Throughout the pandemic, scientists have been highlighting where these models are wrong and putting forward alternative hypotheses. Instead of debating and assessing the evidence, these scientists were censored.

Read more: hartgroup.org/cases-continue-to-fall

JCVI Chair Professor Wei Shen Lim was entirely unconvincing in defending the policy change. We also note his conflict of interest: direct responsibility for funding received by his department from Pfizer.

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