Professor Neil Ferguson has urged workers not to rush back to offices, undermining the Government s public messaging Professor Lockdown Neil Ferguson was quietly allowed to continue advising the Government s scientific advisory panel, it was revealed today.
No10 said he would no longer attend key SAGE meetings about Covid after he was caught breaking social distancing rules to meet his married lover during Britain s first lockdown.
The epidemiologist was behind Imperial College London s terrifying modelling that warned up to 500,000 Britons could die unless tougher action was taken. It spooked Boris Johnson into adopting the draconian restrictions in the first place.
But Downing Street confirmed today that Professor Ferguson continued to sit on the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) committee and the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG).
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