Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having ‘patchy record of modelling pandemics’ Professor Neil Ferguson, director at Imperial College, London, authored report He said even plans to slow the virus would result in around 250,000 deaths Rival academic Professor Michael Thrusfield accused his … Read more
A top Edinburgh University professor predicted a coronavirus-like crisis two years ago and says that the government missed several opportunities to contain the pandemic. Devi Sridhar, 35, professor of global public health at the university, made the prediction to an audience at the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in May 2018. She said that a … Read more
The distance between Professor Scott McLennan’s desk at Oxford University and Mars is about 140 million miles, but it doesn’t stop him using his computer to direct Nasa’s latest spacecraft on the Red Planet’s surface. He is a member of a team that controls the car-sized vehicle, named Curiosity, as they try to discover if … Read more
PROFESSOR MATTHEW GOODWIN: Rishi Sunak’s bulldozer budget for Boris Johnson’s ‘red wall’ By Matthew Goodwin For The Daily Mail Published: 22:29 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 23:02 GMT, 11 March 2020 This is essentially a budget for blue-collar Britain – for the left-behind communities and left-out workers who, at the recent election, gave Conservatives … Read more
President Trump on Friday baffled observers while touring the Centers for Disease Control headquarters in Atlanta, where he bragged that he had a predisposition toward science because of his ‘super genius’ uncle. ‘You know my Uncle was a great — he was at MIT,’ the president said while standing next to health officials who are … Read more
WHAT EXACTLY IS CORONAVIRUS? ‘Coronavirus’ is the name given to a family of viruses that we have known about since the mid-1960s. Covid-19, the cause of the current outbreak, is a new strain of coronavirus. In total, we know of seven coronaviruses that can infect humans. They include certain strains of the common cold and … Read more
They say scary times call for steady heads. Fortunately, Professor Chris Whitty is one weirdly cool hombre. For 90 minutes yesterday, England’s Chief Medical Officer answered questions from the Commons health committee on the coronavirus outbreak. No notes, no sprawling entourage. He didn’t so much as require a replenishing tumbler of Highland Spring as he … Read more