A “significant surge” in cases is expected in the UK but it is too early to say whether that might mean the relaxation of restrictions needs to be rolled back, a leading expert has said.
Professor Neil Ferguson, whose modelling was instrumental to the UK going into lockdown in March 2020, said if daily cases start going above 100,000 to 150,000 there will be “significant demands on the health system”.
The scientist, from Imperial College London, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said it will be for the Government to decide on potential measures and would not be drawn on what form they might take.
Speaking to reporters during a webinar on Thursday, he said there are concerns about the effect schools reopening could have on virus spread, especially with the more transmissible and now-dominant Delta variant.
As the surge is expected anti-vaxxers and ageing pop stars Right Said Fred commented on a Sky News tweet which said: “Adults who are fully vaccinated are 47% less likely to have long COVID should they contract #COVID19, a new study says.”
Well in a since-deleted tweet they got their maths wrong, very wrong.
Well that type of calculation was never going to be allowed to slide on social media was it?
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Ahh but was the joke on us?
They deleted the original tweet and then put this up…
Yeh as you might have guessed nobody was buying this ‘joke on you’ schtick.
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