Prof Who Predicted 500K UK Deaths Now Says Under 20K Will Die, Peak In Two Weeks

March 27th, 2020

This is the yellowcake uranium moment of the Covid-19 op.

Via: Zero Hedge:

Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson – who originally estimated 500,000 deaths in the UK due to Coronavirus, now says that the virus will peak in just two or three weeks, and that UK deaths from the disease are now unlikely to exceed 20,000, according to NewScientist.

Why the change of heart from Ferguson – who himself has contracted COVID-19?

Ferguson – whose ‘Terrifying’ research from just 10 days ago predicted 2.2 million deaths in the US and that the UK would need to be under quarantine for 18 months or more – now says that coronavirus will not overwhelm the UK’s ICU beds, and that over 1/2 of those it will kill would have died by the end of the year anyway because they were so old and sick.

His reasoning is that estimates of the virus’s transmissibility are much higher than previously thought – and that many more people have gotten it than we realize, making it less dangerous overall.

2 Responses to “Prof Who Predicted 500K UK Deaths Now Says Under 20K Will Die, Peak In Two Weeks”

  1. jakdmsy says:

    I fear this post will not age well

  2. Dennis says:

    Hm. I hope that it will.

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