‘Scotland right now is the most vaccinated part of the UK,’ said Nicola Sturgeon on the Sunday Morning show this weekend. And if you look at the UK dashboard figures that’s certainly true. A reported 92 per cent have had a first jab and 68 per cent are boosted compared to 91 per cent and 64 per cent in England. But are these numbers reliable?
If you look at vaccination in certain age groups in Scotland the rollout has been impressive. In the over-50s, 101 per cent are vaccinated, restricted to over-70s it’s 103 per cent. More jabs than people. But how can more than 100 per cent of a population have been vaccinated? Obviously, they can’t. The problem lies in the denominator.
Vaccination rates are based on an absolute number divided by an estimate.
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