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by chimprich 2225 days ago
> what Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson from Imperial college created in his flawed modeling

Why do you say that? The reputation of the Imperial College team seems to have become a lightning rod for disgruntled right-wingers but the team is one of the world's most respected.

Imperial is one of the world's top universities. That's probably why Sikora falsely claimed on multiple occasions to be employed there.

There's nothing in the Imperial report that caused the UK government to change course that has been shown to be false. The prediction from the report was that the UK would suffer 20,000 deaths from the virus if extensive distancing measures were employed. The current total is 36,000 confirmed, so if anything the report was too optimistic.