https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/26/covid-modelling-prompted-first-uk-lockdown-based-inaccurate/
Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers
Report published in March 2020 suggested more than 500,000 people could die from the virus if Britain took no action
The arguments for and against lockdown are complex, but what is becoming clear is that the evidence that the Government saw was incomplete and potentially inaccurate.
“This is a national scandal. No question about it. The data that petrified politicians was inaccurate.”
“It’s clear from the SPI-M minutes there were issues with the data, it wasn’t robust"
"They should have said ‘I’m sorry, we do not have the data,” he said. “Any forecast based on limited data is just a guess, it’s unethical and reckless,"