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0ur head of statistics, robert cuffe, has been putting these figures into context. they don t fully account for whether we might have done more lockdown is. but they are pretty reasonable on the face of it, in the ballpark. because what they ve done is, they ve looked at the number of cases and the number of infections we have seen over the last couple of months, and they ve said, what if those infections were still killing people at the rate they were before we had the vaccines? so that gives you one number. that gives you a rough estimate of the deaths. and they also say, on top of that, well, the vaccine does prevent some infection. so, if that was the case, if the vaccines weren t working or weren t here, we wouldn t be seeing december, january ish numbers of case numbers as we are at the moment, they d be even higher. and those infections would have gone on to kill people as well. when you think back to december, january, we were seeing tens of thousands of people dying within ....