Big events of 50 people or more could be more Covid safe than modest parties of 10 to 20 people, according to SAGE scientists. People don’t actually mix with a lot of people at large gatherings and only rarely go to them so experts say they may not pose much risk of transmission. But smaller … Read more
Big events of 50 people or more could be more Covid safe than modest parties of 10 to 20 people, according to SAGE scientists. People don’t actually mix with a lot of people at large gatherings and only rarely go to them so experts say they may not pose much risk of transmission. But smaller … Read more
Professor Stephen Reicher said passports wouldn’t be needed if everyone was jabbed Green-lighting domestic Covid vaccine passports would be an admission by ministers that the jab rollout is destined to fail, a Government scientist warned today. Professor Stephen Reicher, a top social psychologist who sits on SAGE, said forcing people to produce jab certificates to … Read more
Professor Stephen Reicher said passports wouldn’t be needed if everyone was jabbed Green-lighting domestic Covid vaccine passports would be an admission by ministers that the jab rollout is destined to fail, a Government scientist warned today. Professor Stephen Reicher, a top social psychologist who sits on SAGE, said forcing people to produce jab certificates to … Read more
Sun-starved Britons may yet be able to head to the continent on holiday this summer, a top scientist said today as Europe continued its charm offence towards UK holidaymakers. Sage’s Professor Neil Ferguson said that if countries like France and Italy can reduce their infection rates to those seen in the UK within months – … Read more
Professor Ferguson, known as ‘Professor Lockdown’ because his warnings of a huge death toll in the first wave led Boris Johnson to lock down the country, said the ratio of cases to hospital admissions would be much lower next time around Even Professor Neil Ferguson is now optimistic that vaccines will squash the UK’s third … Read more
Even Professor Neil Ferguson is now optimistic that vaccines will squash the UK’s third wave of Covid and life in Britain will ‘feel a lot more normal by the summer’. The SAGE adviser and Imperial College London epidemiologist, whose sobering death toll predictions led Britain into its first lockdown last year, said today that he expects the … Read more
‘Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.’ This investment ‘rule’ seems timely for so many reasons, but none more so than the fact that it was made in 2008 by legendary investor Warren Buffett who yesterday hosted the annual shareholders’ meeting of his successful company Berkshire Hathaway in Los … Read more
The risk of catching coronavirus in a pub or restaurant is ‘relatively low’, the Government’s scientific advisers have admitted. Analysis by SAGE found the chance of contracting the virus in hospitality settings appeared slightly higher than in gyms or shops, but concluded the risk was still small. The admission came in a review of studies … Read more
The boss of one of Britain’s largest pub chains has argued that there is now ‘zero chance of the NHS being overwhelmed’ because the government’s modelling has been proved wrong by hard data on the vaccines. Hugh Osmond, chief of Punch Taverns and formerly Pizza Express, said that Boris Johnson’s roadmap was costing his industry … Read more