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Professor Neil Ferguson, director of the MRC centre for global infectious disease analysis at Imperial College London, is live on the Radio 4 Today programme.

When asked if the strategy to flatten the peak is still viable, he said we now need to go much further.

Prof Ferguson said the Government had got the timing about right but warned there was no time to lose.

Asked if more draconian measures should have come earlier, he told Today:

"I think we are still behind the epidemic seen in other European countries, so there's always a balancing act involved in these sort of measures in order to balance the impact of those measures, the costs on the economy against the impact on the epidemic.

"I overall think we have got the timing about right.

"I think we're about three weeks or so behind Italy, two weeks behind France and Spain, so we are making these decisions in a more timely manner than other European countries but certainly there wasn't any time to lose."

Posted By: paulg on March 17th 2020 at 09:54:58

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The view from America, possibly WW2 (Coronavirus) - duke of york, Mar 17, 09:45:54
- It really hasn't though has it. It may well be but we don't know yet. (Coronavirus) - Men without hats, Mar 17, 11:30:11
  - There has been real data for months (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 11:52:14
- It's not a view from America though, is it (Coronavirus) - jampersands, Mar 17, 10:19:11
  - She's an epidemiologist at Boston Uni, Massachusetts (Coronavirus) - duke of york, Mar 17, 10:24:05
- I’ve run out of free reads (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 09:49:24
  - Our scientists massively fucked up (n/m) (Coronavirus) - duke of york, Mar 17, 09:49:58
    - Oh yeah (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 09:54:29
    - Written by an epidemiologist from Boston uni (n/m) (Coronavirus) - duke of york, Mar 17, 09:50:34
      - For every one view .... see another (Coronavirus) - paulg, Mar 17, 09:54:58
        
        and are you also going to justify the fact they haven't ordered any fucking respirators? (Coronavirus) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 17, 15:53:09
        
        He led the team which made the model (n/m) (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 09:56:51
        
        A sobering thread (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 09:58:20
        
        this bit: (Coronavirus) - CWC, Mar 17, 10:09:31
        
        If this is the case then sackings and resignations are in order.But I'm sure (Coronavirus) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 17, 10:04:27
        
        some people are terminally angry; worse than an actual illness (n/m) (Coronavirus) - paulg, Mar 17, 10:06:43
        
        It's the British way. Fuck the solution, look for some one to blame (n/m) (Coronavirus) - CB41, Mar 17, 10:09:13
        
        sadly this is what we've become, a nation of selfish chicken shit scaremongerers (Coronavirus) - Tombs, Mar 17, 10:17:13
        
        Tbf, there is a lot of that going on here too. Partner in contact (Coronavirus) - CB41, Mar 17, 11:11:53
        
        Nobody had to look anywhere since they’ve admitted it (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 10:12:11
        
        Yeah time to process the reality now (Coronavirus) - SCC 28, Mar 17, 10:06:28

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