London hospitals filling up rapidly with antivax ****s apparently. So expect us all to be restricted come Monday or Tuesday thanks to them
One of Britain’s most senior health advisers has been accused of disseminating “dodgy data” that inflated the potential risk of omicron. Dr Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), is understood to have been the source of a contested claim by Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, that there is typically a 17-day lag between patients becoming infected and requiring hospitalisation. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/12/25/dodgy-data-used-push-tighter-covid-restrictions/
Thought the 17 days sounded wrong. More like 10 days for hospitalisation, then 17 days after infection for deaths to occur. Not sure about dodgy motives, just think they haven't got a clue, or unknowingly get things wrong. Like that idiot going on about 250 in hospital a few weeks ago
Or, to put it more accurately after reading the article, a government minister got a number wrong in something he published, and is blaming someone else. There is currently no evidence it was that other person, beyond an unsourced accusation in a newspaper that has an anti-restrictions agenda. Hope that helps.
I did read it, I must have missed the part where the statistician said it was Dr Harries who'd produced the estimate of 17 days. If I'm wrong, I'm sure you'll be able to point to the quote that says so?
“ Simon Briscoe, a former Treasury statistician, said that the 17-day figure appeared to be either a “deliberate statistical sleight of hand designed to deceive, or incompetence”. If deliberate, he added, it seemed that officials were “in effect trying to buy time, as officials realise that data of rising hospitalisations is needed to justify lockdown”. “Dr Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), is understood to have been the source of a contested claim by Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, that there is typically a 17-day lag between patients becoming infected and requiring hospitalisation.” There you go. Have a great day
Wow, you're pretty desperate to be proved right, so much so that you've sneakily altered the text. The part about Harries in the article is (as you well know) seven paragraphs before the words from Briscoe, and it's not in quotes as you've presented it, because it's the assertion of the journalist writing the article who presents no evidence that it's true. Why don't you just go the whole hog and make up a quote from him to support your case?
