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In the UK, the government’s tough strategy against the virus is not particularly questioned. Not among ordinary people on the street. Not because they are on the street: you can only go out once a day unless you work in health care or other key positions in society. At the same time, over 27,000 people died from covid-19 in the UK.
As a result, the country appears to be one of the most affected in Europe.
In the academic world, of course, there have been conflicts. In March, the debate took the form of one university to another. At Imperial College London, there is Professor Neil Ferguson, whose models helped the Boris Johnson government shut down British society in March. But at Oxford University is Professor Sunetra Gupta in theoretical epidemiology, among other things, and has expressed criticism that the Imperial College studies were so influential. Then it didn’t take long for British newspapers to unearth twenty years of historical rivalry between universities.
Institute of mathematical models.At Imperial College it was started by a teacher, Sir Roy Anderson, who had been forced to leave Oxford. The reason he was allowed to leave was in part because he had spread a false rumor about precisely Sunetra Gupta. Sir Roy Anderson stated that he had an affair with a male superior and therefore should not be promoted.
Everything turned out to be inventive.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives the go-ahead after taking part in a national applause for healthcare workers who, under difficult conditions, treat patients with covid-19 disease.
Photo: BEN STANSALL
Because of this, Professor Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College, had to go out and make sure that his disagreements with Professor Sunetra Gupta have nothing to do with this 20-year conflict. And that they are actually friends. In other words, it is not only in Sweden that people are interested in the privacy of their epidemiologists.
That some scientists relate Critical to the Imperial College models, however, it actually has to do primarily with something else:
“Everyone knows that they have been converted quickly and are not designed for this type of virus,” Mike Cates, professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge, told the Financial Times.
Much of the disagreement among British experts dates back to the outbreak of BSE, which is the mad cow disease in 1999. At that time, the British government was armed with, among other things, models from the Imperial College. In the end, 6 million animals were slaughtered and this has subsequently drawn criticism from some sectors. The BSE outbreak led the British government to establish SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies), an official scientific council on the issues. SAGE has been extremely important during the ongoing pandemic. But those who sit on the council are really secret.
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