About a month ago, Imperial College's Neil Ferguson (also known as Professor Lockdown) projected UK would reach 5K deaths per day in this wave without major restrictions.
The UK tested that theory. Cases have peaked and are crashing. Current 7 day-average of deaths is 246.
The UK tested that theory. Cases have peaked and are crashing. Current 7 day-average of deaths is 246.
At the time, the media also extensively spread claims from Ferguson's team that there is no evidence that Omicron was milder than Delta. That was indisputably wrong.
The point is that it's about time we start holding people who want to influence public policy accountable for the inputs based on which they make their recommendations. The UK has based a lot of policy on projections and recommendations made by that team. That should stop.
My favorite was also when people took these bad models from the UK to project up to 30K deaths per day in the US during this wave.
One more for the account that spreads more Covid-19 alarmism and falsehoods than any other.
"All those who said “it’s mild” need to think about how many they have endangered."
"All those who said “it’s mild” need to think about how many they have endangered."
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