No.
He said it's more widespread than believed, therefore less headroom to grow and less lethal than thought.
Off by a factor of 100.
From the dailywire report:
““One last point here: Ferguson gives the lockdown credit, which is *interesting* — the UK only began [its] lockdown 2 days ago, and the theory is that lockdowns take 2 weeks or more to work,” stressed Berenson. “Not surprisingly, this testimony has received no attention in the US — I found it only in UK papers. Team Apocalypse is not interested.”
So Ferguson IS saying he is considering lockdown — but the reporter thinks that makes no sense.
I also do not think that half of UK is already infected. I think if it spread that much, they would have the same crowded hospitals as New York does now. And I don’t think half of New York City has it yet either.
I HOPE that they are all at 50%, because that would be great for ending the lockdowns. But I will be shockingly surprised if when we start random antibody testing we find 50% infected.