We had a situation in Wales a few months back where an ICU consultant tweeted about his ICU being full of unjabbed people. Shortly after he said that one of the senior consultants in Wales went on the BBC and other media talking about the unjabbed filling the ICUs in Wales.
We had a situation in Wales a few months back where an ICU consultant tweeted about his ICU being full of unjabbed people. Shortly after he said that one of the senior consultants in Wales went on the BBC and other media talking about the unjabbed filling the ICUs in Wales.
However, it was not true.
The ICU data was actually available online and a brilliant Welsh statistician, Jamie Jenkins - who used to work at the UK Office for National Statistics, tweeted out the exact data.
The first ICU consultant ICU apparently deleted his tweet and, IIRC, made some claims about being misquoted. The second one said she got the information from a colleague but would not say which one. Alas, the likes of the BBC did not challenge her further.
It was a horrible state of affairs when you stop and think about it. Unjabbed people could have suffered all manner of awful things for what were untruths. I think they should have been made to answer why they were spreading such things.
Anyway, here is Jamie Jenkins who has been producing good FACTS about the covid in the UK using UK data and not stuff that he heard from someone unknown :-)
We had a situation in Wales a few months back where an ICU consultant tweeted about his ICU being full of unjabbed people. Shortly after he said that one of the senior consultants in Wales went on the BBC and other media talking about the unjabbed filling the ICUs in Wales.
However, it was not true.
The ICU data was actually available online and a brilliant Welsh statistician, Jamie Jenkins - who used to work at the UK Office for National Statistics, tweeted out the exact data.
The first ICU consultant ICU apparently deleted his tweet and, IIRC, made some claims about being misquoted. The second one said she got the information from a colleague but would not say which one. Alas, the likes of the BBC did not challenge her further.
It was a horrible state of affairs when you stop and think about it. Unjabbed people could have suffered all manner of awful things for what were untruths. I think they should have been made to answer why they were spreading such things.
Anyway, here is Jamie Jenkins who has been producing good FACTS about the covid in the UK using UK data and not stuff that he heard from someone unknown :-)
https://twitter.com/statsjamie