Friday, March 27, 2020

Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Downgrades Projection | The Daily Wire

Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Downgrades Projection | The Daily Wire
"Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been

  • cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been
  •   instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, 

offered a massively downgraded projection of the potential deathtoll on Wednesday.
Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.
The model predicted far fewer deaths if lockdown measures — measures such as those taken by the British and American governments — were undertaken.

  • After just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates
crediting lockdown measures, but also revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured...
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