[ManardG]

Original report Reuters

Britain has pursued a mass vaccination strategy as aggressively as any country. It approved Pfizer’s vaccine even before the FDA. More than 80% of Britons over 16 are now fully vaccinated.

But Britain is in far worse shape than it was at this time last year, when no one was vaccinated. It is now averaging about 140 deaths a day, roughly 10 times as many as mid-September 2020. And hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise.

[BeauBo]

"Britain is in far worse shape than it was at this time last year, when no one was vaccinated."

There is more than one variable at work, besides vaccination. Obviously, Delta is a difference.

But significantly, this time last year was a lull between waves. Very different, if you compare it to November, when no one was vaccinated.

Beyond just raw total case numbers, there is a clear vaccine protective effect in UK cases, hospitalizations and deaths between the vaccinated and unvaccinated - as there is everywhere else. The higher case numbers now (as compared to a certain particularly unflattering select snapshot in time) are not because of vaccination.