swcoulthurst wrote on Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:59pm:
Which bits rubbish. The true stats or the UK uses a different benchmark
If you read what I wrote, instead of going on the offensive. I did say the vaccine roll out was good in the UK. About the only thing they have got right so far. My point is that the UK use different stats to the rest of the world. Totally irrelevant whether its from the start or not. When figures...
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... are compared they are not like for like...therefore the UK figures are overstated in comparison to the rest of the world. 88.4 percent 1st vaccination according to the Uk figures, but only using their benchmark.
I think most, if not all nations took the same stance of vaccinating the elderly and most vulnerable first.
I cant believe you say the UK government have never compared their vaccination roll out to anyone else..Thats all they do. I frequently hear on UK news, the government saying how good their vaccination is compared to 'the rest of the world', being 'the world leader'. Maybe if they used the same benchmarks then the comparisons would be correct.
What is rubbish is your claim that the UK have been manipulating the stats, how can producing consistent figures be manipulation?
You claim that the UK are putting out their own version of statistics, but how how many government produced statistics can you produce as a comparison, the actual daily figures from government? I suspect at most you may have seen the Spanish figures.
The various global sites take the government figures from around the globe and feed them into their platform to show a comparision by country. The UK figures have been on multiple platforms from day one, if you have been looking you would have seen the comparisions. Even Sanchez was quoting the UK website, OneWorldinData when comparing the figures.
Spain has caught up and that is great news, but don't forget the EU including Spain struggled for months due to a variety of reasons. So now they as well placed as the UK, good.
Aitch.