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“However, the models are only as good as the assumptions that they are based upon. They may not account for many things such as seasonality, details of vaccine rollout individual behaviour.
“Nor can they account for our values and culture for example that people have different tolerances of risk. There are always values in politics and these need to be explained and it needs to be clear how the government has made their decisions.”
Dr House, a reader in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester added: “It’s no good waving curves and graphs at people - if these only show covid cases and deaths. We cannot be clear that the precautionary principle of first do no harm applies, because we don’t know the costs of lockdown measures.
The students, from Millfield School in Street, have been offered places at Oxford University and Cambridge University. Upper Sixth student Emily Paterson from Somerset has received an offer to study Medicine at Oxford University. Upper Sixth students Connor Collins from Somerset, Yuhka Machino from Japan and Lily De Lacy from Chichester have received offers from Cambridge University to study Human, Social and Political Sciences (HSPS), Mathematics and History. Millfield headmaster Gavin Horgan said he was “delighted” for the pupils. “I am absolutely delighted for Emily, Connor, Yuhka and Lily, who are not only are incredibly talented academics, but they are also well-rounded athletes, musicians and artists,” he said.
Lockdown-sceptic
MPs desperate for
focus to shift to
learning to live
with Covid
Original aim of measures was to protect vulnerable and NHS, but case numbers now seem to be an increasingly influential condition
3 February 2021 • 7:47pm
At the current rate, all adults in the UK could be vaccinated before the end of May. But will that mean a full end to lockdown?
When Sir Graham Brady and fellow Tory MPs appeared on a video conferencing call with a select group of scientists last week, a key theme, naturally, was how quickly Britain can safely move out of lockdown.
Sir Graham, the chairman of the 1922 Tory backbench committee, was keen to find out whether the pandemic would become endemic, like the four other human coronaviruses.
About two weeks ago, one hundred doctors signed a petition against closures and restrictions. âWe, doctors in Israel,â they wrote, âstrongly protest against coercive measures to prevent COVID-19 spread, which include lockdown, curfew, shutting down the education system, surveillance, and traffic restrictions. It is our job to warn of the slippery and dangerous slope of violating rights and taking away liberties that the State of Israel is galloping towards.â
They continued, âAs far as CoronaVirus is concerned, coercive measures, especially enforcing movement restrictions of any kind, are destructive and dangerous, and have nothing to do with the medical profession. The basis for taking them is not medical.â