“60% hospitalized are vaccinated”: blunders from Johnson’s adviser

Clamorous gaffe of Sir Patrick Vallance, top scientific advisor to the British government led by Boris Johnson. Taking stock of covid infections at a press conference, which Johnson in solitary confinement attended remotely from his residence in Checkers, Vallance said that “60% of inmates received two doses of the vaccine”. The expert then added that this should not be surprising “because vaccines are not 100% effective”. Vallance himself then corrected himself in a post published on Twitter: “I am correcting a statistic I gave in the conference. About 60% of covid admissions are not people who have received the double dose of the vaccine. Indeed, 60% of the hospitalizations currently concern unvaccinated people “.