Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title Why Edinburgh University's lockdown study is not all it seems Degree of recognition International Media type Print Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 8/10/21 Description Report in the guardian showing that our lockdown study is exactly what it seems. Although with a different spin to how it was reported in the anti-lockdown press the previous day.
Including a critical quote which hasn't stood the test of time so well.
“The key feature of the modelling exercise is that having flattened the first wave using social distancing measures, the interventions are lifted and a large second wave results. In reality, measures are being reimposed in response to the second wave, so the scenario is unrealistic,” said Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh.Persons Graeme Ackland