We have noted the recent New Science report on the testimony of Imperial College London’s Dr. Neil Ferguson. New Science reported Dr. Fergons’s testimony on adjustments to the influential Wuhan virus projections he and his colleagues promulgated in the United Kingdom. In the tweets below Dr. Ferguson has now sought to “clarify” the testimony on which the New Scientist report was based. This Imperial College London report also conveys Dr. Ferguson’s current assessment.
2/4 -This is not the case. Indeed, if anything, our latest estimates suggest that the virus is slightly more transmissible than we previously thought. Our lethality estimates remain unchanged.
— neil_ferguson (@neil_ferguson) March 26, 2020
4/4 – Without those controls, our assessment remains that the UK would see the scale of deaths reported in our study (namely, up to approximately 500 thousand).
— neil_ferguson (@neil_ferguson) March 26, 2020
Via Robert VerBruggen/NR.
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