No one here was compelled to listen to Ferguson’s theory. We have our own virus hunter experts in the CDC and NIH.
I’m sure that they have been following their own models of what Covid could do. And that was based on limited knowledge since China has refused to give CDC access to Wuxan.
This guy John Burn-Murdoch (https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch) does amazing work. The graphs are current as of last evening.