loader image
Friday, October 10, 2025
75.1 F
McAllen
- Advertisement -

Epidemiologist Behind Highly-Cited Coronavirus Model Drastically Wrong

Translate to Spanish or other 102 languages!

If her model is accurate, fewer than one in a thousand who’ve been infected with COVID-19 become sick enough to need hospitalization, leaving the vast majority with mild cases or free of symptoms. In other words, Ferguson’s highly influential initial model was off by orders of magnitude.
If her model is accurate, fewer than one in a thousand who’ve been infected with COVID-19 become sick enough to need hospitalization, leaving the vast majority with mild cases or free of symptoms. In other words, Ferguson’s highly influential initial model was off by orders of magnitude.

Mega Doctor News

- Advertisement -

By Amanda Prestigiacomo, Dailywire.com

Epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who created the highly-cited Imperial College London coronavirus model, which has been cited by organizations like The New York Times and has been instrumental in governmental policy decision-making, offered a massive revision to his model on Wednesday.


Mega Doctor News a bilingual newspaper reaching your audience: Advertise with us!


Ferguson’s model projected 2.2 million dead people in the United States and 500,000 in the U.K. from COVID-19 if no action were taken to slow the virus and blunt its curve.

- Advertisement -

However, after just one day of ordered lockdowns in the U.K., Ferguson is presenting drastically downgraded estimates, revealing that far more people likely have the virus than his team figured. Now, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments, as reported by New Scientist Wednesday.

Ferguson thus dropped his prediction from 500,000 dead to 20,000.

Author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson broke down the bombshell report via Twitter on Thursday morning (view Twitter thread below).

“This is a remarkable turn from Neil Ferguson, who led the [Imperial College] authors who warned of 500,000 UK deaths — and who has now himself tested positive for #COVID,” started Berenson. 

- Advertisement -

“He now says both that the U.K. should have enough ICU beds and that the coronavirus will probably kill under 20,000 people in the U.K. — more than 1/2 of whom would have died by the end of the year in any case [because] they were so old and sick,” he wrote.

Read more, click on the link below:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model

- Advertisement -
- Advertisement -

- Advertisement -

More Articles

Could Direct-to-Consumer Drug Pricing Compete with Prescription Insurance?

A new study offers a glimpse at how direct-to-consumer pharmacy pricing could one day present stiff competition to the private prescription drug insurance model, researchers say. 

DHR Health Urology Institute Expands Expertise with Dr. Kayvon Kian

DHR Health, one of the largest physician-owned hospitals in the United States, proudly serving the Rio Grande Valley since 1997, is excited to welcome Dr. Kayvon Kiani to our esteemed team at the DHR Health Urology Institute.

Unidos Contra la Diabetes to Host 2025 Mini-Symposium and Annual Dia-Beat-IT Health Fair, Nov. 5th

Unidos Contra la Diabetes (UCD) has announced that its 2025 Mini-Symposium and Annual Dia-Beat-IT Health Fair is less than a month away. Moises Arjona Jr., MS, CHWI, Collective Impact Director for UCD, reminded community partners and stakeholders of the upcoming event, encouraging participation and support.

DHR Health Breast Cancer Symposium, Oct. 11th 

To support providers in the community, the DHR Health Continuing Medical Education Department will host the Breast Cancer Symposium on Saturday, October 11, at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance, located at 118 Paseo del Prado.
- Advertisement -
×