Lancet letter which demanded Freedom Day be scrapped was signed by people NO scientific credentials dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I THINK we have an answer to the question I posed last week: how many deaths is too many? It seems to be something over 100 a day. Hence the screech of brakes from Boris Johnson, faced with the prospect of that number of fatalities by mid-August if Covid cases rise, as expected, to 50,000-100,000 a day. In bad years, flu kills over 300 a day so we may be masking up every winter. Mr Johnson executed what we in the business called a “reverse ferret” and turned Freedom Day, July 19, into Face mask Day, desperately urging people to continue observing the restrictions he had told them only a week previously were going to be lifted to liberate the animal spirits of the nation. The Prime Minister called for “extreme caution . constant vigilance . wear your masks”. And for god s sake don t party like it s Euro 2020, even though you just have.
Health Minister Javid Confirms 19 July as Day of Freedom for England sputniknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sputniknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘It’s herd immunity by the back door’
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Protest at the Napier Barracks in Folkestone, Kent where 197 refugees tested positive for Covid-19 – scientists warn removing restrictions will spark a new wave of infections
‘IT’S HERD immunity by the back door,’ Dr Deepti Gurdasani, an epidemiologist and senior lecturer at Queen Mary University told the BBC on Thursday.
She is the organiser of a letter published in The Lancet signed by over 100 scientists and doctors opposing the lifting of all Covid-19 restrictions.
Dr Gurdasani said: ‘The government has made a deliberate choice to expose children to mass infection, rather than protect them in schools or vaccinate them.
UK doctors call it Unethical. With the number of new COVID-19 cases rapidly rising and vaccines not yet giving herd immunity, the medical and scientific experts warned that unlocking England on July 19 was “premature”.
The UK is in for “a summer of chaos and confusion” as the scheme to unlock is neither “careful”, nor “controlled”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to unlock is both “dangerous and premature”, the letter said, as well as “unethical and illogical”.
Over 32,500 infections were recorded on July 7 across the UK – the country’s highest figure since January.
In a public letter, titled “Memorandum Against Mass Infection”, over 100 British doctors and medical scientists denounced the UK government’s decision to lift all COVID-19 restrictions in England on July 19 as “unethical”.