PUBLIC Health Scotland will no longer publish weekly data on Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths from next week after mounting concerns that it is being misused by antivaxxers.
It comes after a former advisor to the Trump administration told a US Senate committee hearing that data from Scotland “demonstrates conclusively that the vaccine is driving massive infections in the vaccinated”.
Paul E Alexander, an epidemiologist and Canadian health researcher, who – as a Trump administration official – advocated for a strategy of mass infection of the public with Covid-19 to build herd immunity, said this was a “big, big problem” during an evidence session chaired by Senator Ron Johnson on January 17.
Dr Alexander was referring to a table published by PHS which showed that by the week beginning January 22, the age-standardised Covid case rate per 100,000 in Scotland was 381.5 among the unvaccinated compared to 570 in the double-vaccinated and 447 per 100,000 in the boosted.
