Wasn’t that the guy who said shelter in place and social distance who then spread Covid via his mistress to her cuckhold husband?
Yes, Dr. Neil Morris Ferguson. He later resigned because of his terrible judgement.
Regardless, the media completely distorted the report his group at Imperial College London compiled. The report explicitly stated that the 2.2 million number was well in excess of anything you would expect to see in reality. The media took 2.2 million and ran with it as gospel because that’s what the media does.