Renowned US forecaster Nate Silver has slammed 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson's prediction that Covid cases would rise to 100,000 a day in the UK. Silver, who uses models to predict the outcome of US presidential elections, said there were too many unknowns in the pandemic for anyone to confidently assert anything. Professor Ferguson, from Imperial College, had predicted that the third wave could lead to a huge surge in infections, with up to 100,000 new cases a day by next month. Renowned US forecaster Nate Silver (pictured) has slammed 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson's prediction that Covid cases would rise to 100,000 a day in the UK