UK virus advisor to US colonists, Neil Ferguson, contracted Covid-19 himself-Washington Times, 3/26, Leaders League 4/15

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Subject of UK Monarchy, “Neil Ferguson...received an OBE [Order of the British Empire] for his work on the 2001 UK foot and mouth disease epidemic. Prof Ferguson advises the UK and US governments, WHO and the EU on emerging infections and modelling.”…Sadly Ferguson has contracted coronavirus, also reported here on 3/26.
 
The Queen awarded Ferguson Order of the British Empire for 2001 work. Today Ferguson advises UK government, US colonists, and WHO.….Neil Ferguson image via Leaders League
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4/15/20, “Ultimately,  he [Ferguson] has come out of the crisis well, though at the cost of his own health–he himself contracted coronavirus in the process [reported 3/26/20 below], the virus having run rife in Westminster.…In an article for Lancet Infectious Diseases [in 2009], he [Ferguson] published an article named “Closure of schools during an influenza pandemic”, which looked at – among other things – the economic effects such a closure would have, estimating that a 12-week closure could cost up to 1% of GDP.”…
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3/26/20, “U.K. epidemiologist radically lowers his predicted coronavirus death toll," Washington Times, James Varney 

“A British epidemiologist who earlier predicted the U.K. could suffer up to 500,000 coronavirus deaths has now testified the actual figure may be less than 20,000 and that the U.K. should have sufficient intensive care units to handle it. 

Neil Ferguson who is at Imperial College London and who has now contracted COVID-19 himself, made the startling turnaround in parliamentary testimony Wednesday, according to multiple reports. All of his statistics are derived from computer modeling.... 

Nationwide the nation should be able to cope with the emergency, which he expects will peak in the next two to three weeks, he said. 

Mr. Ferguson delivered his most recent assessment via video with Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee.… 

The remarkable change in Mr. Ferguson’s predictions came about due to new data that suggests the virus, which first infected people in Wuhan, China, last year, moves much faster than originally thought. Researchers at Oxford have now tentatively concluded that potentially half the U.K. population has already been infected, in a story first reported by The Financial Times. 

Consequently, that would mean coronavirus is far less lethal than early death rates suggest…. 

On March 17, he and his colleagues issued catastrophic predictions that if the U.K. did nothing more than 500,000 citizens would die from coronavirus, and that even with some mitigation efforts it “would still result in about 250,000 deaths and completely overwhelm intensive care in the NHS,” the BBC reported.”
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Added: Heist of $2.2 trillion US tax dollars miraculously coordinated to take advantage of 3/17 much scarier Ferguson prediction of 2.2 million US deaths. On 3/25, one day before Ferguson drastically lowered his virus death predictions (3/26/20), the US Senate passed a $2.2 trillion virus bailout bill based on the much worse 3/17 prediction of 2.2 million US deaths: 

Tues. 3/17/20-Per NY Times, Ferguson predicted 2.2 million US deaths: “Behind the Virus Report That Jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to Action,” NY Times, Mark Landler, Stephen Castle…”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.…With ties to the World Health Organization and a team of 50 scientists, led by a [mathematical biologist] prominent epidemiologist, Neil Ferguson, Imperial is treated as a sort of gold standard, its mathematical models feeding directly into government policies.”
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Wed., 3/25/20–One day before Ferguson’s 3/26 announcement that he’s radically lowering his virus death estimates, the US Senate passes a $2.2 trillion US taxpayer funded Coronavirus bill based on Ferguson’s earlier, catastrophically higher 2.2 million US death estimates reported March 17, 2020. 
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Thurs., 3/26/20-Ferguson new virus computations radically lower UK death estimate from 250,000-500,000 to 20,000.
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Fri., 3/27/20, US House passes and Trump signs $2.2 trillion Coronavirus bill passed by Senate on 3/25.



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