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Anonymous ID: 546149 Nov. 9, 2021, 6:32 a.m. No.14958917   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9241 >>9497

NHS Chief Accused Of ‘Lying’ About Covid Statistics To Promote Vaccines

 

NHS England’s chief executive Amanda Pritchard has been accused of an “outrageous misuse” of statistics after after exaggerating the number of patients who are infected and in hospital with the virus.

Pritchard, who has been calling on the population to get vaccinated or go in for booster jabs, suggested there were ’14 times’ more coronavirus patients in hospital now compared to ‘this time last year’.

The NHS itself has admitted that Pritchard’s claim used misleading figures.

The source of the “14 times” figure is Amanda Pritchard, Chief Executive of NHS England. Pritchard used the apparently alarming surge in hospitalisations to encourage the 4.5 million Britons who still haven’t gotten vaccinated to roll up their sleeves, and those eligible to take their third shot of the vaccine.

However, NHS data shows that Pritchard’s figures are false. According to the health service, a 7-day average of 9,331 Covid-19 patients were in hospital at the beginning of November, compared to 12,654 a year earlier. Just over 1,000 people per day were being admitted to hospital at the end of October, compared to 1,500 last year.

Pritchard was swiftly accused of peddling fake news, with commentators warning that such misleading figures were straying into “resignation territory.”

 

https://newspunch.com/nhs-chief-accused-of-lying-about-covid-statistics-to-promote-vaccines/

Anonymous ID: 546149 Nov. 9, 2021, 7:44 a.m. No.14959319   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>Or that Anne Frank's diary was written with a ball point pen that didn't exist in 1944?

fyi the ballpoint was patented in 1938 & used by the RAF during WW2.

Laszlo Biro's Patents

This principle of the ballpoint pen actually dates back to an 1888 patent owned by John Loud for a product designed to mark leather, but this patent was commercially unexploited. Biro first patented his pen in 1938 and he applied for another patent in June 1943 in Argentina after he and his brother emigrated there in 1940.

The British government bought the licensing rights to Biro’s patent during World War II. The British Royal Air Force needed a new pen that would not leak at higher altitudes in fighter planes the way fountain pens did. The ballpoint’s successful performance for the Air Force brought Biro’s pens into the limelight.