‘Pretty massive screw-up’: UK science chief corrects delta variant hospitalization stat that’s been widely cited

There’s a good chance that today you’ve seen news stories citing a British science official’s statistic that 60 percent of people in the UK who are hospitalized with the delta variant are fully vaccinated. Now the official in question has corrected himself:-- More...

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.

— Sir Patrick Vallance (@uksciencechief) July 19, 2021