Daily Archives: September 10, 2021
What do we know about the long-term effects of Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy?
We’ve been asked on WhatsApp for information regarding the Covid-19 vaccines in use in the UK and whether there are any long-term effects on babies born to women who were vaccinated in pregnancy. What do we know about any long-term effects? Given that the vaccines have recently come into use, there simply isn’t any long-term… Read More »
An influencer muddled his maths on vaccines for children
The online influencer Nohun (real name Raurie Williams) has wrongly described the risks and benefits of the Covid-19 vaccine for children in an Instagram video that has been viewed more than 330,000 times. The video was posted on 7 September 2021, and begins with a screenshot of a Telegraph article which covers the debate about… Read More »
No, health won’t account for 40% of all public spending
“Health and social care will devour 40pc of all public spending by next year.” Daily Telegraph, 8 September 2021. “As a result of the latest changes, health is likely to account for 44 per cent of all public spending by 2025, up from 27 per cent at the start of this century.” the i, 8… Read More »
New healthcare workers suicide figures should be treated with caution
“More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic.” The i, 9 September 2021. The i newspaper has reported new data claiming to show that 64 frontline healthcare workers died by suicide at the beginning of the pandemic. The data is sourced to the Laura Hyde Foundation,… Read More »
Fact checked: six key claims about the new health and social care plan
One story has dominated headlines this week—the government’s new plan for health and social care and how it plans to fund it by raising National Insurance. So we’ve taken a look at some of the key claims we’ve seen in Parliament and the press about the new proposals. The top 20% of households by income… Read More »
5 Things You Should Know – Part 433
Here are 5 things you should know. 1. A crash at 30mph is not twice as bad as 15mph, it’s 4x as bad. Similarly, a crash at 60mph is 16x as bad. This is because kinetic energy is proportional to squared velocity. The dangers of speeding are worse than you might expect, and, on the…… Read More »
25 Interesting Shower Thoughts – Part 278
Here are this week’s shower thoughts. 1-5 Shower Thoughts 1. Wisdom teeth are not worthless, as they provide oral surgeons with a steady stream of income. 2. Old people are new to being old. We might see an old person and associate them with their age. But for them, the whole oldness thing is new,…… Read More »
