Ferguson predicted catastrophic death tolls back on March 16, 2020 unless governments around the world adopted his preferred suite of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to ward off the pandemic. Most countries followed his advice, particularly after the United Kingdom and United States governments explicitly invoked his report as a justification for lockdowns.
Ferguson’s team at Imperial would soon claim credit for saving
millions of lives through these policies – a figure they arrived
at through a ludicrously unscientific exercise where they purported to
validate their model by using its own hypothetical projections as a
counterfactual of what would happen without lockdowns. But the June
hearing in Parliament drew attention to another real-world test of the
Imperial team’s modeling, this one based on actual evidence....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
