Report that may have shifted Trump's Opinion, CNN
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If you hit the link below, you will read an article that predicts as many as 1,000,000 deaths in the U.S. This report was given to the White House Task Force over the weekend.
updated 4:01 ET, Tuesday March 17, 2017, ... Nick Paton Walsh, CNN
title of article:
"US, UK coronavirus strategies shifted following UK epidemiologists' ominous report"
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(CNN) — A study by UK epidemiologists predicts that attempts to slow, or mitigate -- rather than actively halt, or suppress -- the novel coronavirus could overwhelm the number of intensive care hospital beds and lead to about 250,000 deaths in the UK and more than a million in the United States during the course of the current pandemic.
The study, which has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, was released on Monday by London's Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team, which says it is advising the UK government on its response strategy. The study says it used modeling that has informed the approach of the British government in recent weeks; on Monday, the government abruptly called on vulnerable and elderly Britons to isolate themselves for 12 weeks, and introduced a variety of social distancing and quarantine recommendations that days earlier seemed distant prospects.
Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to the UK, confirmed Tuesday that the Imperial College study was among those the UK government was looking at "What suppression in that paper talks about is exactly what we are doing," he said.
Also on Monday, President Donald Trump unveiled a 15-day plan to slow new infections in the United States, including more stringent recommendations about staying home and avoiding groups of 10 people or more, among other steps.
An author of the study, Imperial College Professor Neil Ferguson, said in an email to CNN on Tuesday the study was given to the White House Coronavirus Task Force over the weekend and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday.
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about author of study, from Wikipedia (if you hit link below, then you will have to hit another link, Neil Morris Ferguson, epidemiologist..to see his background and his work. It is there, takes a while to get there, but the information about Ferguson is complete. (Yes, it worth a look, this person has credentials)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)
Neil Morris Ferguson..... OBE FMedSci (born 1968) is a British epidemiologist.[2][3][4] He is a professor of mathematical biology, who specialises in the epidemiology of infectious disease spread in humans and animals. He is the director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA), head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Vice-Dean for Academic Development in the Faculty of Medicine, all at Imperial College, London. Ferguson uses mathematical modelling to provide data on several disease outbreaks including the swine flu outbreak in 2009 in the UK and the ebola epidemic in Western Africa in 2016. His work has also included research on mosquito-borne diseases including zika fever, yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria.
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