SAGE models were too ‘scary’ and held too much weight… says lockdown architect behind them! No10 Covid expert admits death forecasts were ‘eye watering’ and should have considered economy
SAGE models were too ‘scary’ and held too much weight… says lockdown architect behind them! No10 Covid expert admits death forecasts were ‘eye watering’ and should have considered economy
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Its the Daily Mail. This article is 99% pure lies.
Yet the government could have saved 23,000 lives locking down earlier.
>Locking down a week earlier in spring 2020 could have saved 23,000 lives in England during the first wave, a new report has shown.
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>The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found elderly people were nearly three times more likely to die from Covid in care homes than in the community.
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>[https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-23/covid-23000-lives-could-have-been-saved-in-first-wave-if-england-had-been-put-on-lockdown-a-week-earlier](https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-23/covid-23000-lives-could-have-been-saved-in-first-wave-if-england-had-been-put-on-lockdown-a-week-earlier)
What would the deaths have been like if the NHS totally collapsed?
Considering the readership of the DM is one of the oldest of any UK newspaper you’d think they’d want their readership to live.