Category Archives: Public Health

Is the NHS overwhelmed?

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Clive Best

The government’s  mantra to justify tough lockdowns has been the need to save the NHS from being overwhelmed with Covid cases. The actual number of COVID hospital cases is tracked on the government’s dashboard, and the last update was from … Continue reading →

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Covid infection rates falling

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Clive Best

The UK weekly infection rate has been falling since the 18th November and is now about the same as that in Germany (150/100,000). Note that infection rates had mostly stabilised already by early November. The fall in rates for France … Continue reading →

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The SAGE Reasonable Worst Case Scenario (RWCS)

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Clive Best

The news this morning is that the government is due to announce a nationwide lockdown on Monday because  deaths are even worse that foreseen in SAGE’s worst case scenario which was leaked 2 days ago. The Spectator on Thursday published … Continue reading →

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