It is shocking to read that Rochdale Council and some GPs have defied the current rules and are already vaccinating healthy 16 and 17-year-olds.

Read more: hartgroup.org/children-receive-vaccine-despite-the-rules

We must introduce a gradual acceptance of the scientifically established assumption that a COVID-19-free world is unlikely, and that SARS-CoV-2 being an endemic virus is not something to be feared of itself.

Read more: hartgroup.org/covid-19-anxiety-syndrome

Individuals can wear masks if they choose, but turning them into a social superstition — and requiring others, such as hospitality staff to conform so as to give a false veneer of ‘safety’ — is wrong.

Read more: hartgroup.org/lift-all-mask-mandates

Though published by British authors and despite these authors lacking any conflicts of interest, BBC Radio 4 made no attempt to contact any of the study authors for interview or ‘right of reply’.

Read more: hartgroup.org/bbc-ivermectin

MPs will vote on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination today for people working in adult care homes. The plan goes against long held public health principles of proper, informed consent and is scientifically nonsensical...

Read why, here: hartgroup.org/compulsory-vaccination-nhs

The open letter urges the recipients to remind all doctors that reporting a potential adverse event in relation to the new COVID-19 vaccines is a professional duty and enhances patient safety.

Read more: hartgroup.org/open-letter-yellow-card

Our COVID-19 newsletter is out.

- Unvaccinated as ‘variant factories’?
- New data confirms children at extremely low risk
- NHS Protocol for treatment of COVID-19
- Confusion among mask advocates
- Hypocrisy at Wimbledon and Wembley

Read more: hartgroup.org/news

Professor Greenhalgh admits that loose fitting masks are practically pointless and, having previously recommended wearing panty liners in masks, she now recommends wearing tights over your head to ensure the mask is a snug fit.

Read more: hartgroup.org/confusion-among-mask-advocates

The guidance advises symptomatic treatment such as morphine sulphate tablets to suppress coughing - despite the fact that it carries the risk of potentially fatal respiratory depression.

Read more: hartgroup.org/nhs-protocol-covid-19

All viruses mutate and trying to blame humans for this phenomenon is as unscientific as it is divisive.

Read more: hartgroup.org/unvaccinated-as-variant-factories

In case we were in any doubt, there are now extreme double standards at play in our society. How long will we allow this rampant hypocrisy to continue?

Read more: hartgroup.org/hypocrisy-wimbledon-wembley

These findings support HART’s clearly stated view that vaccinating children is unnecessary and unethical.

Read more: hartgroup.org/children-extremely-low-risk

The vote to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for care home staff had just 90 minutes of debate. No recognition of the huge ethical implications and no presentation of the fraught pros and cons for such watershed legislation.

Read more: hartgroup.org/freedom-day-briefing-underwhelms

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?

Read more: hartgroup.org/nhs-protocol-covid-19/

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

Read more: hartgroup.org/unvaccinated-as-variant-factories

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.

Read more: hartgroup.org/confusion-among-mask-advocates

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.

Read more: hartgroup.org/vaccine-certification

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

Read more: hartgroup.org/news

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.

Read more: hartgroup.org/drop-the-mask

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