🚨🚨 Eluned Morgan (Welsh Health Minister) “… last Friday we wouldn’t impose too many protections. I think if we are honest that is likely to change in the next few weeks”
The number quoted here by Jacquie who works for Sky News does not reflect the national picture where its 48% in November. There will be regional variations and so no reason to dispute her.
She talks of cancer ops being cancelled and this is nothing new - see below before Covid.
🚨🚨 @DrSarahJarvis “the intensive care societies of the UK produced a report up to June which showed that 73.1% of people in intensive care… were unvaccinated”
FACT CHECK
➡️ It was 74.8% in June but Sarah using out of date report. Current estimates for November are 48% ❌
This is the second week in a row I have had to call out information being broadcast on the Jeremy Vine radio 2 show.
I have done several threads highlighting the media misreporting the number of unvaccinated patients in hospitals (see next tweet for thread) claiming more than there are.
For balance, this is not to suggest vaccines are a bad thing.
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My blog shows that those unvaccinated who are identified as a Covid case are more likely to be admitted to hospital.
We don't know how much bias there is with those coming forward for testing, for example, are unvaccinated mainly picked up at hospitals.
It would be fine if it just affected them, but it doesn’t. In recent weeks some 39 per cent of Covid patients in hospital have not been vaccinated; a number that rises significantly within intensive care units
➡️ 39% correct. It rises to 48% for ICU
It's not surprising to me having been made a Conservative life peer she is peddling out the Government line.
Boosters if your at high risk offer extra protection ✅
Boosters if low risk takes a jab from a vulnerable in a low income country. ❌