UKHSA data shows that people who receive a booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine are more likely to be infected with the disease.
An orthopaedic surgeon made several false and misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines during an appearance on GB News on 22 January 2022.
The video has been viewed more than 230,000 times combined, just on GB News’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels. A version of the video has also been shared by others on Facebook, and on Twitter by the Conservative MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies, who conducted the interview.
Many of the claims made by the surgeon, Mr Ahmad Malik, are pieces of common vaccine misinformation that we have checked before.
Mr Malik said: “If you look at the UK safety agency data, there’s some incredible stuff coming out, which shows that if you’re double vaccinated and boosted, you’re more likely to get infected than [un]vaccinated [people].” (Mr Malik’s exact words were that “you’re more likely to get infected than vaccinated”, but he seemed to be making a comparison with unvaccinated people here.)
This is not true.
It appears to come from a common misinterpretation of the UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) vaccine surveillance report. Mr Malik tweeted a similar false claim based on unadjusted UKHSA data on 24 January.
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