Professor Neil Ferguson has declared that Britain’s Covid cases and hospitalisations may be “petering out”, adding that the country is unlikely to need a Netherlands-style lockdown because antibody levels are higher in the U.K. population due to higher case numbers earlier in the year. MailOnline has more.
The Professor at Imperial College London told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We’ve had two or three weeks of declining cases and admission to hospitals, that may be petering out, it is too early to say.
“There is a hint of an uptick in the last few days.
“But we are in quite a different situation from those European countries you are talking about (the Netherlands, Germany).
“We’ve had very high case numbers, between 30,000 and 50,000 a day, really for the last four months, since the beginning of July.
“That has obviously had some downsides. It has also paradoxically had an upside of boosting the immunity of the population compared with countries like Germany, the Netherlands and France, which have had much lower case numbers and are only now seeing an uptick.”
The Epidemiologist, whose modelling helped instigate the first lockdown last year, said he hopes the U.K. can “avoid” returning to social distancing restrictions this winter.
He said: “I think it is unlikely we will get anything close to what we had last year, that catastrophic winter wave.
“We might see slow increases as we did in October, for instance, but not anything as rapid as we saw last year.
“We can’t be complacent, but at the moment I don’t think we’ll be in a situation the Netherlands is coming into where they really do need to get on top of rising case numbers using social distancing.
“I very much hope we can avoid that in this country.”
The expert also said modelling from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has indicated that rolling out booster vaccinations to the “younger age groups” once the most vulnerable have been jabbed could help “drive down transmission to low levels” in Britain.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: When lockdown sceptics have suggested that natural immunity can provide you with protection that’s at least as robust as the Covid vaccines – with all the attendant implications for vaccine passports, ‘No Jab, No Job’, etc. – they’ve been branded “anti-vaxxers”. Does this mean Professor Lockdown is now an anti-vaxxer?
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First take ze migrants, zen take ze bugs, zen rip out ze gas boilers, zen get on ze bicycles. —Ve have vays of impoverishing you and making you feel zo happy about it.
It’s not Ireland but look at this. Nasty, callous, treacherous b’stards! Damn right they need named and shamed. Zero budget when it comes to migrants, though, as if we need any reminders as to where their loyalties lie;
”Yesterday Parliament voted 348 to 228 to end winter fuel payments to pensioners. They were all Labour MPs.
Here is a video of every MP who voted for the measure. They deserve to be famous.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1833924307379945690
Knock all the green sh*t off the bills, then no need to bump up the allowances.
You ain’t seen nuthin yet Ron——Despite Miliband’s bare faced lies, bills are only going in one direction————UP UP UP——-Hey Miliband you are a f….g LIAR
I seriously don’t know how this feckin lot sleep at night.
We can all see Starmer sleeps very soundly.
He is not in the least careworn despite all the adverse exposure of the past two months and more.
He is loving every minute.
Take a good look at his face.
No empathy.
Compare Yvette ‘Allo Allo’ Cooper who is looking care worn.
Did you see the cheering when they won the vote? It was like England had just scored against Germany. Cheering because they have won the right to kill pensioners as indicated by their own study back when the Tories were thinking about removing the allowance, that said up to 4000 pensioners might die if the allowance was removed. ——Meanwhile migrants refurbishments including satellite TV will make sure the illegal aliens are nice and cosy this winter. I hope they chuck in a Netflix subscription as well since the poor vulnerable aliens should not have to be going without the latest films and TV series.
To be honest, I watched that clip a couple times and couldn’t detect cheers, only people shouting ”shame!”. But I see that after that decision was declared Lammy announced Ukraine needed a ‘few’ more million quid. Priorities…Anyone would think these sociopaths don’t have elderly parents themselves, but I guess freezing to death from hypothermia is just a working class problem;
”Wow. David Lammy just gave another 600 Million to UKRAINE. We are living in a clown world . Do you believe any of these clowns when they say they are fixing the foundations and can’t give heating allowances to pensioners.”
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1833928932367954398
There’s nothing wrong with living in the stone age.
Stone age peoples managed so we should be fine.
Anyone saying different do not pass go and go straight to the Scrubs for 18 months for being a Far White racist thug.
One of Ireland’s great charms and strengths is the Irish people.
Soon to be no more.
Bye bye Irishness and Irish people.
Maybe they need some dog and cat munching Haitians?
LOL.
PS. I have read numerous reports and seen a number of online videos saying this has been happening in Springfield Ohio the population of which was overwhelmed by an influx of 20,000 Haitians.
Maybe we should house some in the UK in Keir Starmer’s street or Angela Rayner’s?
I have the ideal place for Haitian criminals. —-No not prison. The Lion enclosure at the London Zoo.
The Government in Ireland recently signed up to the EU’s ‘Pact for Migration’, which makes migration into the EU continuous and permanent. The EU says that all member states must sign up to this pact and those that refuse their quotas will be fined a large sum of money.
Ireland is already swamped with migrants but they seem to want more. As their society continues to disintegrate it is likely to become like France with criminal trafficking gangs transporting migrants across the border into Northern Ireland. The UK is invaded from two directions.
There needs to be an emergency debate in the HoC about this issue.
We are not in the EU, allegedly, so why can’t we simply make companies pay tax on what they make here? Rules are made to be changed after all.
Any chance that Starbucks will give a warm spot and free coffee etc. to pensioners? We live in a poor world indeed when Labour MP’s cheer the fact they have succeeded in murdering Pensioners but do nothing about major companies making obscene profits.
It all depends on what the double taxation treaties say for legal persons domiciled or resident in a different jurisdiction.