COVID correction of the day

[Emrys]

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Sir Patrick Vallance
@uksciencechief

Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July. About 60% of hospitalisations from covid are not from double vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from covid are currently from unvaccinated people.

FFS.

I avoid listening to anything Johnson says during these COVID briefings because (apart from the fact, like too many, he tends to conflate what's happening in England with what's happening in the UK as a whole) I end up feeling far less well informed after he's finished bloviating than I was before.

But when the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser can't avoid reversing the facts on national telly, then only sees fit to correct himself - "Oops!" - on Twitter, it just adds to the general sense of despair and rudderlessness (as evidenced by the number of folks I've seen freaking out about this on that platform, along with those trying, with the best intentions, to rationalize his gross misstatement).

[Celerity]

1. Do you have the figures of the breakdown for that 40%? What percentage are partially vaxxed,

and what percentage are fully vaxxed?

TIA

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Others have asked; LBC, for figures up to 25 June, reckoned, for the Delta variant,

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Who is actually being hospitalised with the Delta variant? Our analysis of latest PHE data (up to 25 June) shows that, in England:

73% were under the age of 50
63% were completely unvaccinated (of which 89% were under 50)
14% had had 1 jab
15% had had 2 jabs (of which 81% were over 50)

So that is 92%; 8% unknown?

LBC used 3 weeks after the jab as "vaccinated"; on 4th June, 75.7% of adults had had 1 jab, 52.1% 2.

So, combining the figures, a relative risk of hospitalization is:
unvaccinated: 63 / (100-75.7) = 2.6
1 dose: 14 / (75.7-52.1) = 0.6
2 doses: 15 / 52.1 = 0.3

or roughly: unvaccinated 9, 1 dose 2, 2 doses 1.