Ch-ch-ch-changes...

[Aerovette]

Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on Wednesday.


Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.

However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson has changed his tune, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments.

Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.

[FLEXjs]

Ooops

Worldwide we are at what, 28,000 so far?

Still a lot, really.


EDIT: 22,321 according to this site: https://ncov2019.live/data

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by FLEXjs

Ooops

Worldwide we are at what, 28,000 so far?

Still a lot, really.


EDIT: 22,321 according to this site: https://ncov2019.live/data

21000 I believe. His 20k number I think was for the UK alone.

[Egnalf]

Originally Posted by aerovette

21000 I believe. His 20k number I think was for the UK alone.

That is correct. He said 500k in the UK, now dropped to 20k. good news, but media wont be touting it.