A summer wave, a winter wave, the threat of new restrictions – Chris Whitty and Neil Ferguson were not holding back yesterday. But for all the doom and gloom, the signs are the summer ripple is already peaking.
Glen Bishop, the maths student at Nottingham, has worked out what the Government has effectively spent on each life saved from COVID-19: £1 million.
Following further pressure from SAGE on delaying Britain's unlock, the Prime Minister has said that Number 10 may have to "wait" for more data before pushing ahead with ending the lockdown.
Neil Ferguson says that the spread of the Indian strain may lead to restrictions being "tightened" – but as Britain recorded 3,000 Covid cases today for the first time in a month, deaths remained in the single figures.
Prof Neil Ferguson appeared on the Today programme this morning where he took a surprisingly sanguine attitude to emerging data on the Indian variant in the UK. Does this mean we can have our freedom back, Boris?
Imperial College's modelling has been consistently poor at predicting the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet for some reason Neil Ferguson and the ICL team remain respected authorities on epidemic modelling.
Professor Neil Ferguson says that the success of the U.K.’s vaccine rollout means life will feel more normal by the summer, though we will still “not completely back to normal”.
As the promise of freedom recedes, events in Britain take a worrying turn, as Boris declares the public "want us, as their Government – and me as the Prime Minister – to take all the actions I can to protect them".
On the anniversary of the week in which our lives became intimately subject to the outputs of a physicist's dodgy computer model, let's revisit Imperial's infamous Report 9 to remind ourselves quite how wrong it was.
Neil Ferguson was on the Today programme this morning to raise the alarm about the new South African variant. He's like Freddy Krueger: every time you think you've seen the back of him, he pops back up.
