Dr Steve James said hospital staff in the UK should not be required to have Covid jabs, in part because the vaccines were not having a significant effect reducing transmission.
But what the doctor didn't mention is that, as with his point about vaccines, this protection also wanes and may be ineffective against infection with a different variant.suggests the protection from having had Covid against infection by the Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, "may be as low as 19%".
He describes himself as "pro-choice and pro-vaccine", saying his point was specifically about the science behind the mandate not the vaccine itself. This fits into a pattern she 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.
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