Marr asks professor why he got covid despite being vaccinated
During Sunday’s The Andrew Marr Show, the host openly admitted to viewers that he believed he caught Covid-19 during his visit to the G7 in Cornwall. The BBC presenter said despite having both vaccinations, the virus left him feeling extremely unwell. The G7 Summit took place in Cornwall between June 11 and June 13 and saw a special visit from America’s president Joe Biden. However, Marr said he began to show symptoms of the virus last week. According to the NHS website, if someone tests positive for the virus, they must self-isolate for 10 days. The self-isolation period begins from the day someone first shows symptoms.
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The host spoke with Sir Peter Hornby, the chairman of Nervtag (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group) about him catching the virus.
“I hope it’s not self-indulgent, Sir Peter to ask you about me,” Marr began.
“I got coronavirus last week. I’d be double-jabbed earlier in the spring and felt, if not, king of the world.
“If not almost entirely immune and yet I got it. Was I just unlucky?”
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Sir Peter replied: “Were you unlucky? I think you were. What we know with the vaccines is that they are actually remarkably effective at preventing hospitalisations and death.
“They are less effective at preventing infection so, although you were sick, you weren’t hospitalised and there wasn’t any fatality.
“And that’s probably because of the vaccination. I think it’s really important for people to realise that, as we increase the vaccination rates and most old people are vaccinated, we will see break-through infections.
“We will start to see, actually, in the end the majority of infections are in the people that have been vaccinated and that does not mean that the vaccines don’t work.”
Marr added: “I’m pretty clear that by being vaccinated I did not end up in hospital and that’s a great thing.”