Fact-checking the doctor who challenged the health secretary on Covid
Ansuggests the protection from having had Covid against infection by the Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, "may be as low as 19%".
If the vaccines completely blocked transmission, it would be a much simpler ethical question, he says.What was the reaction online? "I am most definitely pro-choice and pro-vaccine, which is a position some find too complex to support," he says. This fits into a pattern Dr Viz regularly sees online, where short clips, single statistics or lines from a scientific study taken out of context can "completely blow up" and cause more confusion than straightforward falsehoods.And her fears were not misplaced.
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