Lancet Study Labelled ‘A Joke’ for Failing to Distinguish Unvaccinated From ‘Under-Vaccinated’

Published on January 22, 2024

A study in the medical journal the Lancet, widely reported on last week, concludes that 7,000 hospital visits in the summer of 2022 were caused by people being “under-vaccinated” against COVID-19 – but flaws in its data interpretation were immediately flagged up by experts in statistics. Critics included Professors Norman Fenton and Martin Neil, both experts in statistics, risk and probability from Queen Mary University, who said, “The paper is a joke and should never have been published.” The pair accused the Lancet authors of “writing the conclusions in such a way that the mainstream media will wrongly be able to claim that those vaccinated are less likely to be hospitalised or die from COVID-19.”...