Chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) Professor Wei Shen Lim, Britain's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, and Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) June Raine, attend a media briefing on COVID-19 at Downing Street in London, Britain September 14, 2021. Justin Tallis/Pool via REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - England's deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam, whose use of colourful metaphors and similes became a hallmark of the British government's COVID-19 news conferences, said on Thursday he was leaving the role and returning to academic life.
Van-Tam, 57, used analogies from flying, soccer and rail travel to explain the state of the struggle with the pandemic, winning praise for his clear communication of complex issues.
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