🚨🚨 @sajidjavid - “Having gone through the Delta wave and so many South Africans having being infected with Delta whether there is a high degree of natural protection through infection”
➡️ Government just removed natural immunity from #CovidPass
➡️ Ignore science for control
If the Health Secretary thinks South Africa may be coping better with #Omicron because of natural immunity then why is the UK Government now refusing to even acknowledge this as I explained here to @iancollinsuk
Even Chris Whitty was talking about the impact of natural immunity on reducing the hospital rate - the immune system offering good protection against infection.
🚨🚨 Denmark - #Omicron 17,155 cases identified as of 16 December.
◼️ 8.5% in unvaccinated
◼️ 79.0% Two doses only
◼️ 10.8 % booster doses
➡️ Double vaccinated over represented
➡️ Unvaccinated and boosted under represented based on % of population in each group
The data suggests your more likely to test positive for #Omicron if your double vaccinated than if you had no vaccine at all or a booster.
➡️ 16% of population unvaccinated but they make up 8.5% of cases.
➡️ 24% of population are boosted and make up 10.8% of cases.
Unvaccinated are over represented among the other variants, which will be predominantly Delta.
Of the 17,155 #Omicron cases just 30 have ended up in hospital and less than 5 in ICU. There is a time lag between cases and needing to get healthcare if needed.
🚨🚨 @sajidjavid - ‘If we look at those that are the most ill in hospital needing the most care and attention, around 9 out of 10 of them are unvaccinated’
FACT CHECK
➡️ This relates to 154 patients over 5 months and around 0.14% of #Covid patients admitted to hospital
It is true that 91% of patients requiring Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Respiratory Failure were unvaccinated - this was 141 people of the 154 patients.
Over the same period, 100,000 patients were admitted to hospital with Covid.
I would hardly say quoting this most extreme care is representative of the likely outcome for patients.
He is basing her claims on 0.14% of the population admitted to hospital with Covid and ignoring the other 99.86%.