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Prof Jonathan Van-Tam the deputy chief medical officer for England told BBC News a few minutes ago that new research suggested that vaccines had prevented 22m coronavirus infections and 60,000 deaths in England.
He was speaking shortly before the publication of Public Health England’s latest vaccine surveillance report (pdf), which contains the figures. It says:
Estimates suggest that 60,000 deaths and 22,057,000 infections have been prevented as a result of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, up to 9 July.
The recent fall in Covid cases as measured by the government’s Covid dashboard does not look plausible, a prominent academic has said.
Prof Tim Spector said he thought the official data looks “a bit fishy” because it does not correspond with what other figures are showing.
It’s dropped something like 30% in two days, which is pretty much unheard of in pandemics, and remember this is happening without restrictions, without lockdowns, without some sudden event.
To me, it looks a bit fishy.
