Is there any science behind two-metre social distancing rule…? Government adviser says guidelines on keeping apart was ‘conjured out of nowhere’ Robert Dingwall from Nervtag said the rule is not backed by scientific evidence The sociology professor warned evidence supports a one-metre gap but not two He said that government’s advice for a two-metre distance … Read more
Is there any science behind two-metre social distancing rule…? Government adviser says guidelines on keeping apart was ‘conjured out of nowhere’ Robert Dingwall from Nervtag said the rule is not backed by scientific evidence The sociology professor warned evidence supports a one-metre gap but not two He said that government’s advice for a two-metre distance … Read more
A federal judge on Thursday denied a bid for a new trial by President Donald Trump’s longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone after the veteran Republican operative accused the jury forewoman of being tainted by anti-Trump political bias. US District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected Stone’s claim that the jury forewoman was biased against … Read more
British government adviser who worked with China from the start of the coronavirus outbreak faces questions about whether he could have done more to raise the alarm in the UK By Mark Hookham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 02:00 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 02:00 BST, 12 April 2020 A top Government coronavirus … Read more
British government adviser who worked with China from the start of the coronavirus outbreak faces questions about whether he could have done more to raise the alarm in the UK By Mark Hookham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 02:00 BST, 12 April 2020 | Updated: 02:00 BST, 12 April 2020 A top Government coronavirus … Read more
Britain won’t know for weeks whether lockdown can be eased , a top government adviser warned today – as the Cabinet descended into wrangling over fears the draconian curbs themselves could cause 150,000 deaths. Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson said ‘definitive’ proof of whether restrictions have worked will not be available for ‘several more weeks’. But Prof … Read more
Britain won’t know for weeks whether lockdown can be eased, a top government adviser warned today – despite fears the public is crippling the economy by obeying the rules too well. Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson said ‘definitive’ proof of whether restrictions have worked will not be available for ‘several more weeks’. But Prof Ferguson, who has … Read more
The row over Britain’s coronavirus lockdown intensified last night after a Government scientific adviser said the country ‘cannot hide away forever’ from the disease. Rupert Shute, the deputy scientific adviser at the Home Office, predicted that 80 per cent of people would get the disease anyway. Speaking to passport officials in an attempt to urge … Read more
‘80% of us will get coronavirus’: Scientific adviser to the Government says there is no more risk at work than at home and insists we ‘cannot hide from it forever’ You’re no more at risk at work than you are at home, claims Government adviser Rupert Shute’s comments feed into debate over lockdown effectiveness Foreign … Read more
Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, said statistics are starting to show the ‘beginning of change’ and that Britain’s coronavirus crisis did not appear to be accelerating The UK’s top scientist today offered the public a glimmer of hope that the strict coronavirus shutdown is having an effect after official statistics revealed the … Read more