Professor Jonathan Van Tam has regularly deployed fun metaphors to clearly explain complicated scientific ideas during the pandemic.
Some of the former deputy chief medical officer's best moments include comparing the Government's relationship with coronavirus to a football game.
He has also likened the vaccine rollout to a train that was ready to be boarded or a plane preparing for landing.
At the end of 2021 Professor Van Tam, known as JVT, 57, became a social media sensation after ripping off his trademark shirt and tie to reveal a slightly less formal shirt during a jovial television appearance.
'I love metaphors. I think they bring complex stories to life for people. It's great,' he previously told the BBC.
Here we look at some of JVT's best moment's and greatest analogies:
Britons have loved Jonathan Van Tam's use of analogies while explaining Covid-19
JVT, a fan of Boston United, likened the vaccination programme to defensive football players whose job it was to 'watch everybody’s back'.
At a Downing Street press conference he said: 'A bit like a football game where the strikers who score the wonder goals are the ones who make the headlines, actually, the hard yards are done by the defenders and by the defensive midfielders tracking back, tracking back for 90 minutes of the whole game, watching everybody’s back.
'This is what it’s going to be about now, tracking back and making sure that we finish the job properly in the phase one cohorts before we move on.'
His love for Boston UnitedHe once said: 'I'm very proud to be a Boston United fan. If I can help put the Pilgrims on the map in any way, I'm always happy to do so. It means a lot to me.'
Boston United play in the National League North - the sixth tier of English football.
JVT has previously worn an amber-and-black club tie at the Downing Street podium and regularly mentions his favourite team on television.
'I'm a devout Boston United season-ticket holder and I'm desperate for football to come back,' he said at a briefing in May 2020.
JVT has previously worn an amber-and-black club tie (pictured) at the Downing Street podium and regularly mentions his favourite team on television
He compared the pandemic to the Aintree horse race when he warned Britain could not fall at the final fence.
'The vaccine effects are going to take three months until we see them properly, and until then no-one can relax,' he told The Sun.
'We are probably in the last few furlongs of this race – like in the Grand National. We just have a couple more fences, we have just got to stick with it.'
JVT compared the pandemic to the Aintree horse race when he warned Britain could not fall at the final fence (file image)
Football is a common tool used by JVT to explain Britain's progress through the coronavirus pandemic.
He once described the development of the Pfizer vaccine to reaching the penalties at the end of the play-off final.
'So this is like… getting to the end of the play-off final, it’s gone to penalties, the first player goes up and scores a goal.
'You haven’t won the cup yet, but what it does is, it tells you that the goalkeeper can be beaten.'
