There has seen a sixfold increase in Covid-19 related deaths in the month since UK PM Boris Johnson failed to order a short-term lockdown.
On September 21 Johnson’s team of experts forecast an “exponential rise” in Covid-19 cases and warned that to save lives he should act rapidly and stringently with a “package of interventions”.
He failed to do so.
Between August 21 and September 21 there were 383 Covid-19 deaths in the UK
In the month to October 21 there were 2,370 such deaths.
The experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) reported on September 21:
“A package of interventions will need to be adopted to reverse this exponential rise in cases. Single interventions by themselves are unlikely to bring R below 1 (high confidence). The shortlist of non-pharmaceutical interventions that should be considered for immediate introduction includes:
Johnson ignored the key advice to return the number of cases to low levels by ordering the lockdown circuit breaker.
He refused to ban all contact within the home with members of other households, instead sticking with the previous policy of allowing people to mix in groups of six, indoors or outdoors.
He refused to order the closure of all bars, restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms and business such as hairdressers.
And he refused to limit college and university teaching to online teaching.
Instead, he only instituted early closing for pubs and bars; table service only; closing businesses that were not Covid secure and expanding the use of face coverings, with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.
SAGE had advised: “The more rapidly interventions are put in place, and the more stringent they are, the faster the reduction in incidence and prevalence, and the greater the reduction in COVID-related deaths (high confidence).
“A more effective response now may reduce the length of time for which some measures are required.”
There were 4,437 new cases and 11 deaths on the day the warning was issued. A month later the figures were 26,688 new cases and 191 deaths.
Johnson has put the economy ahead of saving the lives of citizens, despite Lord Hope of Craighead, first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2013, telling the Lords: “It is the first responsibility of government in a democratic society to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens.”
But Johnson said on September 16 that a second national lockdown would be disastrous for the economy and the government was doing "everything in our power" to prevent one.
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On September 21 Johnson’s team of experts forecast an “exponential rise” in Covid-19 cases and warned that to save lives he should act rapidly and stringently with a “package of interventions”.
He failed to do so.
Between August 21 and September 21 there were 383 Covid-19 deaths in the UK
In the month to October 21 there were 2,370 such deaths.
The experts on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) reported on September 21:
“A package of interventions will need to be adopted to reverse this exponential rise in cases. Single interventions by themselves are unlikely to bring R below 1 (high confidence). The shortlist of non-pharmaceutical interventions that should be considered for immediate introduction includes:
- A circuit-breaker (short period of lockdown) to return incidence to low levels.
- Advice to work from home for all those that can.
- Banning all contact within the home with members of other households (except members of a support bubble.
- Closure of all bars, restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms and personal services (e.g. hairdressers).
- All university and college teaching to be online unless face-to-face teaching is absolutely essential.”
Johnson ignored the key advice to return the number of cases to low levels by ordering the lockdown circuit breaker.
He refused to ban all contact within the home with members of other households, instead sticking with the previous policy of allowing people to mix in groups of six, indoors or outdoors.
He refused to order the closure of all bars, restaurants, cafes, indoor gyms and business such as hairdressers.
And he refused to limit college and university teaching to online teaching.
Instead, he only instituted early closing for pubs and bars; table service only; closing businesses that were not Covid secure and expanding the use of face coverings, with the potential for tougher local restrictions for areas already in lockdown.
SAGE had advised: “The more rapidly interventions are put in place, and the more stringent they are, the faster the reduction in incidence and prevalence, and the greater the reduction in COVID-related deaths (high confidence).
“A more effective response now may reduce the length of time for which some measures are required.”
There were 4,437 new cases and 11 deaths on the day the warning was issued. A month later the figures were 26,688 new cases and 191 deaths.
Johnson has put the economy ahead of saving the lives of citizens, despite Lord Hope of Craighead, first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2013, telling the Lords: “It is the first responsibility of government in a democratic society to protect and safeguard the lives of its citizens.”
But Johnson said on September 16 that a second national lockdown would be disastrous for the economy and the government was doing "everything in our power" to prevent one.
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