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These things happen.

Via MailOnline:

…The stark modelling is understood to have single-handedly led to the decision to move away from herd immunity to a national lockdown on March 23.

But minutes from a SPI-M (Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling) meeting  have shown that, a week earlier, the modellers remained ‘uncertain‘ of case numbers ‘due to data limitations’.

The team is also understood to have believed that the modelling only showed ‘proof of concept‘ that lockdowns could help deal with Covid, before warning that ‘further work would be required‘.

Following the release of its model, Imperial College held a press conference, followed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordering the public to avoid pubs, restaurants and non-essential social gatherings later the same day.

Doomsday prediction was based on ‘uncertain’ data (Mail Online)