Health
UCL team’s claim that herd immunity set to be achieved in UK disputed – The Guardian
Many scientists critical of University College London Covid-19 forecast as ‘over-confident and over-optimistic’

CoronavirusMany scientists critical of University College London Covid-19 forecast as over-confident and over-optimistic
Britain will on Friday achieve herd immunity from Covid-19, according to a forecast from scientists at University College London which was no sooner made than disputed.
Scientists from other institutions argued that the modelling was wrong and the approach had a history of over-confident and over-optimistic predictions.
Prof Karl Friston and his UCL colleagues claimed that by…
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