Elephant herd takes a snooze after embarking on 300-mile trek across China since escaping

Walking across China is quite tiring! Elephant herd takes a snooze after embarking on 300-mile trek since escaping from a nature reserve Herd of 15 elephants broke out of a nature reserve in southern China on April 16 and began a long march north They have since walked 300 miles, the longest migration on record … Read more

Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn

Revealed: Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn (as 63% of voters back their use) Ministers planning to use vaccine passports as a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ The passports will allow the return of mass public gatherings in the summer ‘Covid status certificates’ will not likely … Read more

Police car screeches to halt to avoid cows at 90mph after herd strays into the road

Emergency moo-neouvre! Police car screeches to halt to avoid cows at 90mph after herd strays into the road South Yorkshire Police officers were met by herd of cows while on an urgent call  Sheffield officers narrowly avoided cows who spread themselves across road  Force encouraged people to remember to close their gates to avoid this … Read more

Facebook flags WSJ op-ed on ‘herd immunity’ by Johns Hopkins professor as ‘fake news’

The Wall Street Journal has claimed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ after an op-d written by Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary (pictured) was flagged last week. The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ when they flagged an op-ed that was written by … Read more

Britain and the US could achieve herd immunity through Covid vaccines before the end of 2021

Britain and the US may be on the cusp of herd immunity by the end of 2021 thanks to their speedy Covid vaccine roll-outs, data suggested today. But forecasters analysing the current pace of the global inoculation drive have warned Germany, France and Italy must rapidly speed up to reach the same threshold. Herd immunity … Read more

Johns Hopkins doctor claims the US will reach herd immunity by April

Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary has made a bold claim: ‘We’ll have herd immunity by April,’ he wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial.   Dr Makary estimates that the U.S. will have herd immunity by then, driven by the high, but underestimated, number of people who have been infected already and vaccination.  ‘Some medical … Read more

Bumble dating app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is a billionaire at 31

Bumble’s billionaire… at just 31: Dating app founder celebrates a stellar first-day trading performance on Wall Street By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 Dating app Bumble’s founder has become a billionaire at 31. Whitney Wolfe Herd’s wealth jumped from £362million to … Read more

Expert says herd immunity may be achieved by summer if we can get 40% of the population vaccinated

Experts say it is possible that the U.S. may achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus as early as July. In a video for MedPage Today, Dr Monica Gandhi, of the University of California San Francisco, said the nation will only be able to curb virus spread between vaccination coverage and natural immunity. There are currently … Read more

Wanted: Britain’s first BISON rangers as herd of the massive mammals is released into Kent woodland

Wanted: Britain’s first BISON rangers as herd of the massive mammals is released into woodland in Kent Two people are being recruited to manage UK’s first herd of bison in Kent woods Herd of European bison are being released into Blean Woods near Canterbury  Four of the massive mammals will roam through 500 acres of … Read more

Fauci says 85% of U.S. population will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for ‘herd immunity’ 

Fauci says 85% of Americans will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the U.S. to reach ‘herd immunity’ Dr Anthony Fauci said 85% of Americans will need to get coronavirus vaccines for the U.S. to achieve ‘herd immunity’ This occurs when enough of the population is immunized or has recovered from the illness so … Read more