Stay updated with breaking news from Prof Michie. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Behaviour scientists advising the Government reacted with shock when former prime minister Boris Johnson tweeted to the public “stay alert” messages with which they did not agree, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has heard.
A LEADING Covid expert has blasted the “fixed view” of a BBC interviewer on Boris Johnson’s plans to lift restrictions in England.
EVE SIMMONS: Last week I walked into my local Sainsbury's maskless. It wasn't a statement. But it began to dawn on me that I was the odd one out.
Professor Neil Ferguson suggested there was a growing realisation in early March 2020 that the country was heading for a large number of deaths.
Covid: ‘Between 20,000 and 30,000 lives could have been saved with earlier lockdown’ There are examples of when “the science didn’t suit” the Government’s aims, it would be “side-stepped”. Between 20,000 and 30,000 lives could have been saved if the UK had locked down a week earlier, a leading adviser said, as he told how scientists grew increasingly concerned about the lack of a clear plan. Professor Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, whose modelling was instrumental in persuading the Government to bring in the first lockdown, suggested there was a growing realisati...