On March 13, 2020, the UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, said the government wants 60% of the population to catch coronavirus to try and create “herd immunity” to protect against the virus becoming an annual crisis. He “thought the coronavirus was likely to become an “annual virus” and that the strategy was to limit the impact on the NHS but not stop the virus completely.” [2]
Three days later Neil Ferguson’s Imperial College London’s model predictions were released, predicting 260,000 could die if herd immunity was pursued. Resulting in “541 scientists criticised Vallance’s ‘herd immunity’ idea”, allegedly upon the “fears for the NHS, who are already struggling to meet the demands of an increase in sick patients,”. [1]
The Ferguson’s computer model suggested that “the new tighter controls could limit deaths to around 20,000.”
On May 5, 2020, Ferguson, thinking he was immune, broke his own lockdown rules by escaping to his mistress. He resigned shortly after from his position on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which Patrick Vallance heads up, along with Jeremy Farrar.