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Was the LOCKDOWN MODEL wrong?

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In this round-up of the week, as 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson falls from grace the computer model that kept people off the streets comes under fierce attack. The global covid-19 blame game goes up ten notches. And new research challenges our theories of why insects may be in decline.

References

How ‘Professor Lockdown’ brought covid-19 into Downing Street

https://www.businessinsider.com/neil-ferguson-transformed-uk-covid-response-oxford-challenge-imperial-model-2020-4?r=US&IR=T

Nature Special Report: The simulations driving the world’s response to covid-19

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01003-6

Code review of Neil Ferguson’s model

https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

Study on grasshoppers in Texas

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7271

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