Linda Dykes' old account

I've changed my Twitter handle to @DrLindaDykes - I've created this account using my old Twitter handle just to ensure nobody else poses as me!

And we can see the game-changing impact of vaccinations clearly in the English hospitalisation data. If it weren't for vaccines, more Covid patients would have been admitted to hospital yesterday than at the height of the winter peak. Instead we're 75% below it.

Vaccination prevented ~75% of hospitalizations in England's Delta wave, as determined by modeling ft.com/content/0f11b2… @FT @mroliverbarnes @jburnmurdoch "@PHE_UK estimates...vaccines being used in the UK are between 91 and 97 per cent effective in preventing hospitalisation."

One of the effects of vaccination is that fully vaccinated people have a much lower risk of death from Covid, even if they are not completely immune ft.com/content/0f11b2…

'Leaky vaccines probably put herd immunity out of reach, especially when faced with the Delta variant' (AND vaccine hesitancy) ft.com/content/0f11b2…

If you’ve found your way to this account (I now tweet from @DrLindaDykes) wondering why the Down’s Syndrome infographic link doesn’t work ⬇️ that’s because it now lives at lindadykes.org/downloads in the #FOAMed Infographic section! 👍