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Lockdown saved no lives and may have cost them, Nobel Prize winner believes
[The Telegraph] Lockdown caused more deaths than it saved, a Nobel laureate scientist said on Saturday, as he predicted the UK would emerge from Covid-19 within weeks.Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial trajectory of the pandemic, sent messages to Professor Neil Ferguson [an A1 wanker] in March telling the influential government advisor he had over-estimated the potential death toll by "10 or 12 times". The Imperial College professor's modelling, a major factor in the Government's apparent abandoning of a so-called herd-immunity policy, was part of an unnecessary "panic virus" which spread among global political leaders, Prof Levitt now tells the Telegraph. Prof Levitt, a British-American-Israeli who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the "development of multiscale models...[subscription req'd] Related: Michael Levitt: 2020-04-01 Coronavirus: The California Herd Michael Levitt: 2020-03-27 The number of (Israeli) fatalities from coronavirus climbs to 12 Michael Levitt: 2020-03-26 Jewish Nobel laureate fella at Stanford sez virus will hit turning point sooner than expected Posted by: Clem 2020-05-25 |
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