Lockdowns could continue into SUMMER 2021, even with mass vaccination campaign - UK govt report

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Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:09 UTC

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A full UK lockdown is needed to prevent an early 2021 'catastrophe', a Government scientist has warned.

Andrew Hayward, professor of infectious diseases epidemiology at University College London, warned the country was "entering a very dangerous phase of the pandemic" and said "decisive" action was needed.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme Professor Hayward said: "I think we are entering a very dangerous new phase of the pandemic and we're going to need decisive, early, national action to prevent a catastrophe in January and February.

"A 50% increase in transmissibility means that the previous levels of restrictions that worked before won't work now, and so Tier 4 restrictions are likely to be necessary or even higher than that.

Comment: If the lockdowns 'worked before' why are more and harsher ones needed? Either the advisor is dangerously stupid or maliciously deceptive, both should disqualify him from any position of influence.

Professor Andrew Hayward said "decisive" action is needed

Professor Andrew Hayward said "decisive" action is needed

"I think we're really looking at a situation where we're moving into near lockdown, but we've got to learn the lessons from the first lockdown."

He added the rise in cases was "very largely driven" by the new, more infectious variant of coronavirus, and suggested that allowing pupils to return to schools would mean stricter restrictions in other areas of society.

Comment: The rise in cases is clearly driven by faulty, mass testing - on a scale the UK has never before seen - because, otherwise, the vast majority who are 'asymptomatic', better known as HEALTHY, wouldn't know they had it and there wouldn't be 'cases' to speak of.

Prof Hayward added: "We've had control measures that were previously controlling the old variant are not enough for this variant.

"And so if we want to control the new variant we are going to need much tighter restrictions."

Comment: Again, if the previous lockdowns didn't control the old variant, why would the new lockdown be guaranteed to control transmission of the new, more infectious - and most likely even more harmless - variant? Either way, the lockdowns are doing more damage than the harmless virus ever could so this call to action is deadly irresponsible: "Lockdown kills": LBC radio host argues 'public is being scared into backing another lockdown'

Prof Hayward said he thought schools would have to return "maybe a little bit later" but that it would mean "we're going to have to have increased, strict restrictions in other areas of society to pay for that".

"We need to be more or less in a similar sort of messages of stay at home unless you really, really have to, so there's that combined with incentivisation of testing, incentivisation of isolation - those sorts of things that will carry us through the next few months while we get as many people as possible vaccinated."

Comment: There's no need to vaccinate the entire population against a virus that is harmless to the vast majority. That's why flu vaccinations were only ever given to the vulnerable. And, even then, there are serious questions over whether decades of flu vaccination campaigns did more harm than good.

His warning comes after figures revealed yesterday England now more Covid-19 patients in NHS hospitals in England than during the peak of the first wave in April, new figures have revealed.

The NHS England data shows there were 20,426 patients in NHS hospitals in England as of 8am on Monday, compared to the 18,974 patients recorded on April 12.

Comment: Note the above claims are deliberately misleading:

The number of further lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus recorded in a single day in the UK also hit a new high of 41,385 as of 9am Monday, according to Government figures.

Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: "This very high level of infection is of growing concern at a time when our hospitals are at their most vulnerable, with new admissions rising in many regions."

The figures come amid warnings that hospitals in the South are facing a rise in pressure due to the increasing number of coronavirus patients.

Comment: RT reports that the pseudo-reality pushers are aiming for mass vaccination and lockdowns running into summer 2021:

Britain must ramp up vaccine distribution by TEN TIMES & retain national lockdown

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FILE PHOTO: Patients enter a clinic to receive their first of two injections of a coronavirus vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, in Wolverhampton, Britain.

Conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and delivered to the UK's official SAGE [The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] advisory group late last week, the research notes that with a new coronavirus strain found to be "56% more transmissible" than other known variants, the country faces a significant "wave" of infections, hospitalizations and deaths short of continued restrictions and a vast ramping-up of its vaccine program.

Whilst the virus may be more transmissable, we know from previous fearmongering about 'mass death and overwhelmed hospitals' that SAGE predictions have been almost always wrong.

"We found that regardless of control measures simulated, all NHS regions are projected to experience a subsequent wave of Covid-19 cases and deaths, peaking in spring 2021 for London, South East and East of England, and in summer 2021 for the rest of England," according to the study, which was based on mathematical modeling.

So even WITH mass vaccinations AND total lockdown across the entire country, the government is predicting 'waves' into summer 2021?

"We project that large resurgences of the virus are likely to occur following easing of control measures. It may be necessary to greatly accelerate vaccine roll-out to have an appreciable impact in suppressing the resulting disease burden."

Resurgences of the virus occurs because lockdowns that have unnecessarily shielded the healthy from being exposed to it.

The UK's vaccination program currently doles out 200,000 doses each week, around 10 times less than what the study argued would be needed to halt a major uptick in the outbreak.

While the researchers noted they could not find "clear evidence" that the new strain results in more severe symptoms, its greater transmissibility "is likely to lead to a large increase" in Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths, even with the restrictions that were in place before December 19. Only an "England-wide" Tier 4 lockdown - currently the highest level on the country's multi-level framework - coupled with a rapid increase in vaccinations can reduce the "peak ICU burden" to numbers below those seen in 2020.

"Our estimates suggest that control measures of a similar stringency to the national lockdown implemented in England in November 2020 are unlikely to reduce the effective reproduction number... unless primary schools, secondary schools, and universities are also closed," the study went on, referring to the rate at which the coronavirus spreads.

However, even with the recommended 2 million vaccinations per week and a national Tier 4 lockdown, the researchers' models estimated 35,700 additional deaths in the UK between now and the end of June. Short of the tenfold boost to inoculations and tightened restrictions, that projection soared to 118,000 deaths.

Note that 9 months into this farce and the best that the fearmongers can come up with are predictions, and the reality is that those predictions made many months ago never came to pass.

UK health officials' repeated warnings about the new mutant strain have helped drive fears of another long-term lockdown in the country, including rumors of even harsher 'Tier 5' restrictions. The concerns prompted a pre-Christmas exodus from London and elsewhere as thousands of citizens sought to flee a new round of measures imposed in some areas over the holidays.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the temporary restrictions will be reviewed on Wednesday, but in light of the new strain and the recommendations from the LSHTM, it is unclear whether health officials will be ready to scale back the containment measures, which remain in force at Tier 4 across London and much of South East England. While the rest of the country has been placed on Tiers 2 and 3, denoting "high" and "very high" risk on the four-level system, "millions" more could be moved into Tier 4 after this week's review, according to Whitehall sources cited by the Telegraph.

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