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Coronavirus latest news: Data shows three-tier system was working, Prof Carl Heneghan says
3 November 2020 • 8:33am
Carl Heneghan, director of the university's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, said cases in Liverpool, where the most severe restrictions were imposed, had been brought down by a half and that hospital admissions had "stabilised".
Professor Heneghan said new lockdown measures should be based on "actual data" rather than models that had shown to be wrong, after he described how one forecast of 4,000 deaths a day was "mathematically proven" to be incorrect.
He told the Today programme: "Many of the measures are working as intended."
From Thursday, new national restrictions will be imposed across England for four weeks after Boris Johnson said action was needed to prevent a "medical and moral disaster" for the NHS.
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Coronavirus latest news: Data shows three-tier system was working, Prof Carl Heneghan says
3 November 2020 • 8:33am
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Carl Heneghan, director of the university's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, said cases in Liverpool, where the most severe restrictions were imposed, had been brought down by a half and that hospital admissions had "stabilised".
Professor Heneghan said new lockdown measures should be based on "actual data" rather than models that had shown to be wrong, after he described how one forecast of 4,000 deaths a day was "mathematically proven" to be incorrect.
He told the Today programme: "Many of the measures are working as intended."
From Thursday, new national restrictions will be imposed across England for four weeks after Boris Johnson said action was needed to prevent a "medical and moral disaster" for the NHS.
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