The 3/16/20 UK study’s prediction of 2.2 million American deaths was opinion and not science since the study hadn’t been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and its authors declined to make their code available to the public. No one in their right mind would use an unscientific study as a reason to imprison millions of Americans and their children indefinitely, yet on March 16, 2020, “the White House quickly “ did so, though at first saying it was only for 30 days.
Image: 15-day plan, became a 30 day plan, announced 3/16/20, WhiteHouse.gov
CNN: UK study released on 3/16/20 predicting more than a million US deaths had not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Image below: 3/16/20, Trump announces 30 day virus plan, White House, via CNN, 3/17/20
CNN: “The study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, was released on Monday [3/16/20] by London’s Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team,” and predicts more than a million deaths in the United States.
3/17/20, “US, UK coronavirus strategies shifted following epidemiologists’ ominous report,” CNN, Nick Paton Walsh
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Added: Nature: UK study’s code predicting 2.2 million US deaths remains private. 4/2/20: “That code was not released when his [Ferguson’s] team’s projections on the coronavirus pandemic were first made public…The [UK] team is working with Microsoft to tidy up the code and make it available, Ferguson says.”…US White House “quickly followed” UK study guidance on social distancing and ordered it for hundreds of millions of Americans:
4/2/20, “Special report: The simulations driving the world’s response to COVID-19," Nature.com, David Ada
“The same model suggested that, with no action, the United States might face 2.2 million deaths; it was shared with the White House and new guidance on social distancing quickly followed.”….
“That code was not released when his team’s projections on the coronavirus pandemic were first made public, but the team is working with Microsoft to tidy up the code and make it available, Ferguson says.”
Above, UK’s Neil Ferguson
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Added: Additional source that US government was immediately “influenced” by UK study, NY Times, 3/17/20: UK study predicting 2.2 million US deaths “influenced the White House to strengthen its measures to isolate members of the public:“
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Image: 15-day plan, became a 30 day plan, announced 3/16/20, WhiteHouse.gov CNN: UK study released on 3/16/20 predicting more than a million US deaths had not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Image below: 3/16/20, Trump announces 30 day virus plan, White House, via CNN, 3/17/20
CNN: “The study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, was released on Monday [3/16/20] by London’s Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team,” and predicts more than a million deaths in the United States.
3/17/20, “US, UK coronavirus strategies shifted following epidemiologists’ ominous report,” CNN, Nick Paton Walsh
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Added: Nature: UK study’s code predicting 2.2 million US deaths remains private. 4/2/20: “That code was not released when his [Ferguson’s] team’s projections on the coronavirus pandemic were first made public…The [UK] team is working with Microsoft to tidy up the code and make it available, Ferguson says.”…US White House “quickly followed” UK study guidance on social distancing and ordered it for hundreds of millions of Americans:
4/2/20, “Special report: The simulations driving the world’s response to COVID-19," Nature.com, David Ada
“The same model suggested that, with no action, the United States might face 2.2 million deaths; it was shared with the White House and new guidance on social distancing quickly followed.”….
“That code was not released when his team’s projections on the coronavirus pandemic were first made public, but the team is working with Microsoft to tidy up the code and make it available, Ferguson says.”
Above, UK’s Neil Ferguson
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Added: Additional source that US government was immediately “influenced” by UK study, NY Times, 3/17/20: UK study predicting 2.2 million US deaths “influenced the White House to strengthen its measures to isolate members of the public:“
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3/17/20, “Behind the Virus Report that Jarred the US and the UK to Action,” NY Times, Mark Landler, Stephen Castle
“It wasn’t so much the numbers themselves, frightening though they were, as who reported them: Imperial College London.”
“American officials said the report, which projected up to 2.2 million deaths in the United States from such a spread, also influenced the White House to strengthen its measures to isolate members of the public."…
“It wasn’t so much the numbers themselves, frightening though they were, as who reported them: Imperial College London.”
“American officials said the report, which projected up to 2.2 million deaths in the United States from such a spread, also influenced the White House to strengthen its measures to isolate members of the public."…
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