Modelling

Why is Professor Neil Ferguson Now Denying He Told the Government to Lock Down?

Prof Neil Ferguson is denying responsibility for lockdown, telling the Covid Inquiry that scientists only set out evidence for ministers. Yet his infamous March 2020 report stated that lockdown was the only option.
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With Neil Ferguson’s Abysmal Record of Failed Predictions, Boris Was Right Not to Trust Him

Boris Johnson told the Covid Inquiry he hesitated to trust the apocalyptic predictions of Neil Ferguson's models because of his poor record from previous viruses. He was right to do so, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
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Lockdown Was Necessary to Prevent “Extraordinarily High Loss of Life”, Chris Whitty Tells Covid Inquiry – Despite Sweden

Lockdown was necessary to prevent an "extraordinarily high loss of life", Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry today, despite Sweden long ago exposing such a claim as palpable nonsense.
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UKHSA Pleads Poverty to Get Out of Appraising Lockdown Model Performance Despite £2.4 Billion Covid Budget

The UKHSA pleads poverty to get out of providing any systematic appraisal of the models it used to justify lockdown despite having a £2.4bn Covid budget for the coming year, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
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Covid Infections Peaked Prior to Lockdown – Any Policy Riding the ‘Down Wave’ Would Have Worked

As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
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The Real Scandal is the Covid Inquiry’s Failure to Engage With the Evidence on Lockdown

The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it.
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Covid Vaccination Prevented 354,000 Delta Wave Deaths in Japan, Claims Absurd Modelling Study

A new Nature modelling study makes the absurd claim that Covid vaccination prevented 354,000 Delta wave deaths in Japan, despite this being 10 times the mortality rate of the earlier waves.
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