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Re:Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-mon... by jmorse2 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:58PM (#26008211)
To reinforce this, one of the statistics that the beeb have wheeled out is that in the most vulnerable group being vaccinated (in the UK), aged 80+, one in ten of them will die regardless of covid in the next year. Quoted from "How to vaccinate the world -- Vaccine Hesitancy" [0] from 12 minutes in to 15 minutes. (And because it's BBC sounds, for some reason it randomly skips episodes when I load the page).

The entire series is well worth a listen, data driven and statistics heavy.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000qblw

Edit - because the beeb want registration, alternate link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/vaccine-hesitancy/id15...

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Re:Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-mon... by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:34PM (#26008601)
> the beeb

Never heard this term. From context I'm assuming it's slang for the BBC?

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Re:Oxford vaccine shows sustained protection of 76% in 3-mon... by tomalpha on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @07:04PM (#26008861)
Yep, and even more oddly:

> It is also known colloquially as "The Beeb", "Auntie", or a combination of both (as "Auntie Beeb") [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

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