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| Lockdown saved no lives and may have cost them, Nobel Prize winner believes |
| 2020-05-25 |
| [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] |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #6 #5 In biophysics - his area are quantum processes in macromolecules. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 13:20 |
| #5 Levitt did get a Nobel Prize after all. Oh, wait, but so did Obama...and al-Gore. Never mind. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-05-25 12:42 |
| #4 Follow the Science! What Science? The Science we agree with! |
| Posted by: Dacama 2020-05-25 07:02 |
| #3 /\ Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost. There as well eh ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-05-25 05:50 |
| #2 Young people are indeed leaving areas overlord controlled ares. Locating in states having more freedom and less infection. No masks. No social distancing. Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-05-25 04:19 |
| #1 At the very beginning, Levitt predicted that CV19 will kill, at most, 10 people in Israel. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 01:36 |