STAT STUMBLE Death forecast used to justify national lockdown is based on old stats and may be four times too high, scientists say
The projections were based on research conducted three weeks ago by Cambridge University, the Telegraph reports.
Experts have questioned why the work is still being used to make decisions when the university has published more recent research, whose estimated death tolls are considerably lower.
Speaking to the Telegraph, Professor Carl Heneghan, director of Oxford University's Center for Evidence-Based Medicine, said it was "deeply concerning" that out-of-date data was bring used in decision-making.
“Our job as scientists is to reflect the evidence and the uncertainties and to provide the latest estimates," he said.
“I cannot understand why they have used this data, when there are far more up-to-date forecasts from Cambridge that they could have accessed, which show something very different.
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