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Originally Posted by pip08456
Confusion still reigns though.
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PM: "The reduction in hospitalisations, deaths and infections has not been achieved by the vaccination programme. It's the lockdown that has been overwhelmingly important in delivering this improvement in the pandemic"
and Matt Hancock
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I'm delighted to confirm we have met the target to offer a first vaccination to the 9 highest risk groups ahead of the 15 April deadline. Vaccines are safe, effective & have already saved over 10,000 lives - when it's your turn, come forward & get the jab.
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The two aren't contradictory. The original prediction was for ~500k deaths if we did nothing. We've actually had ~125k. If vaccines have prevented ~10k so far, everything else (but presumably mostly lockdown) has prevented close to 400k.