CORONAVIRUS could kill 85,000 people in the UK in a “worst case scenario” second wave this winter, a leaked SAGE report says. The report claims that schools will likely remain open R…
CORONAVIRUS could kill 85,000 people in the UK in a "worst case scenario" second wave this winter, a leaked SAGE report says.could be reintroduced to curb the spread of infection.A leaked SAGE report says that coronavirus could kill 85,000 people this winter in a 'worse case scenario'However, SAGE note in the document that the report is "a scenario, not a prediction" and admits "significant uncertainty" around the data.
The report also suggests that, by November, restrictions other than school closures to be put in place to mitigate transmission - and these could remain until March 2021.But experts have since criticised the modelling - stressing that there was a huge range of possible scenarios this winter. And last month, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance suggested there could be as many as 120,000 coronavirus deaths this winter.that a second wave scenario was "avoidable but not easy" - with the reopening of schools set to bring new challenges to managing the spread of infection.“It is a very serious threat. But so far in the UK we are managing to keep the number of new cases flat through a combination of test and trace and local lockdowns.
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