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Prof Neil Ferguson designed the effect of the epidemic for the UK government.
Prof Neil Ferguson, whose guidance was crucial to the choice to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every 3 or 4 days before measures had actually been taken.
Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, informed a committee of MPs: “Had we introduced lockdown steps a week previously, we would have minimized the final death toll by at least a half.
” So whilst I think the measures, offered what we understood about this infection then, in terms of its transmission, were necessitated … certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen numerous less