Thu Dec 23, 2021 – 12:24 pm EST
(The Daily Sceptic) – This feels like a pivotal moment. Prime Minister Boris Johnson could listen to the doom-mongers urging him to impose tighter rules after Christmas, just as Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford have done.
The modelling team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine predicts the number of daily COVID hospital admissions will rise to 7,190 in January, but that’s far from the most apocalyptic scenario. Not to be outdone, Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College have estimated that COVID deaths are likely to rise to 5,000 a day without further restrictions. Hardly surprising, given the virus’s “exponential growth.”
According to the Prime Minister’s scientific advisors, the number of daily omicron infections is doubling every two-to-three days. Or is it every two days? Or every one-and-a-half days? They’re certainly growing very, very quickly.
And it isn’t just Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty screaming in Boris’s ear demanding he do something – anything! – to stop this tidal wave engulfing our beloved NHS. Health Secretary Sajid Javid told Parliament earlier this month that the number of new cases could exceed one million a day by
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