Professor Ferguson co-founded the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London. The centre was responsible for the COVID19 computer modelling that warned of 500,000 deaths in the UK Continue reading →

The UK has been under lockdown / house arrest for six long weeks, the economy has been put on hold, income has vanished, parents are now teachers and people isolated from their friends and families. By and large the Brits, encouraged by Johnson’s evocation of the war-time “your country needs you”, Continue reading →

It is now a fundamental assumption amongst governments and health experts world wide that a new vaccine for COVID-19 is the only solution to the current pandemic crisis. Billions of dollars, backed by taxpayers money and through philanthropic donations are being channelled to pharmaceutical companies to fast track a new vaccine to the market Continue reading →

As the country decides how to unlock, the government is discussing possible strategies of ongoing social isolation, the social bubble, lockdown scenarios, and possible quarantine with forced removals from homes or care homes. An article in The Guardian, on April 30^th quoted, “Social bubbles’ of small groups could be Continue reading →