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The UK vaccine programme commenced 8th Dec. 2020

A week later, Matt Hancock declared #Alpha (Kent) as the first significant Variant of Concern VoC (🟣on📈)

After the second peak of cases appeared to roll over end of November, 2020, a third peak of cases took off mid Dec 2020
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The #Alpha VoC was said to contain mutations within the ‘S’ gene which meant the S gene could not be detected in the PCR #SGTF

This changed the way PCR ‘positives’ would be declared & with it, increased the proportion of positive results declared

Increased false positive?

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Daily 🇬🇧UK #COVID19 case numbers jumped from 15,000 pre 8th December, to a then record 75,000 daily ‘cases’ by end of December 2020

A large proportion of those positives were in the JCVI priority groups 1&2

Were the vaccines making people more susceptible to testing +ve?

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