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4 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
In recent days I've noticed the BBC improving its game in clearly, and now properly, quoting vaccination numbers as proportions of the whole (or just adult) population. Thanks. Now how about quoting total deaths using the full ONS death-certificate number (152,183)?
Not quoting the full number of Covid deaths, apart from being extraordinary propaganda, insults the dead and their bereaved families. And it insults your intelligence and mine. I don't know why we put up with it.
Ask yourself which number YOU want to know: the one on the left, or the one on the right? ImageImage
There are those who want to say 'ah but' about the full number - "ah but maybe Covid was only one of the causes", "ah but maybe they had Covid and were run over by a bus" etc. Sorry, I'm not interested. If the death certificate cites Covid as causal, that's enough for me. End of.

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FFS! BBC News at it again. 3pm headlines on Radio 4: "blood tests show 75% of people have antibodies". Absolutely not. The figures were for adults. They *keep* quoting stats which exclude children from the population, making the numberd sound misleadingly reassuring.
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OMG BBC News at Ten just said 37.5 million first doses meant 71.2% "of the population" had been given a dose. The population of the UK is circa 68.2m, so that number represents 55%.
They meant the *adult* population I suppose, but they made the same horrendous mistake twice.
And by the way, if 55% of the population have had 1 or 2 doses, then 45% have had none.

Doesn't sound quite so good that way round, does it?
If you're looking for a number close to 70%, it's this: 68% of the population have had either only the first dose, or nothing. Herd immunity is further away than BBC News would have you believe.
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