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Lethal illiteracy
'His subsequent calculations leave him baffled as to why the UK has already experienced more deaths than his incorrect figure would suggest – even if everyone in the country were to be infected. The chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, patiently explains the difference “It seems that the FT figure is 0.04 (ie 4% not 0.04%)”, to which Johnson replies: “Eh? So what is 0.04 if it is not a percentage?”
