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Britain's pandemic modellers say future large waves of COVID possible
Reuters via Toronto Sun ^ | February 4, 2022

Posted on 02/04/2022 12:14:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

LONDON — There is a realistic possibility of large waves of COVID-19 infection in the future in Britain and such waves might even be considered likely, epidemiologists who model the COVID-19 pandemic to inform government advice have said.

The Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, Operational sub-group (SPI-M-O) said the emergence of new viral variants was the biggest unknown factor in the medium-to-long term, along with waning population immunity and changes in mixing patterns.

“Large future waves of infection that need active management to prevent detrimental pressure on the health and care sector are, at least, a realistic possibility (high confidence) or likely (medium confidence),” SPI-M-O said in a consensus statement published on Friday.

“The next few years will be highly uncertain, and future outbreaks and waves will likely be noisy as things settle down,” the SPI-M-O statement said.

“A steady, predictable pattern… may be many years away.”

(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; virus; wuhan
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1 posted on 02/04/2022 12:14:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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Chicken Little says the sky is going to fall.................


2 posted on 02/04/2022 12:16:45 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pandemic mongers, not modelers.


3 posted on 02/04/2022 12:18:50 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have a bit more faith in the Brits at this point .


4 posted on 02/04/2022 12:19:13 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me guess; same models that predicted 2 million dead by June of 2020?


5 posted on 02/04/2022 12:19:28 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s get Bill Nye the science guy on the job.


6 posted on 02/04/2022 12:24:37 PM PST by existentially_kuffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember back in March 2020 - Imperial College was basically predicting millions of people just dropping dead in the streets?


7 posted on 02/04/2022 12:24:47 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You mean like we have a huge wave of flu every year? You mean like that?


8 posted on 02/04/2022 12:25:10 PM PST by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My word these last two years starting on year 3 is absurd/absurdity. Seems everything is absurd and the clown world continues. I was hoping that sanity prevails in this world but maybe not. I’m getting old.


9 posted on 02/04/2022 12:26:40 PM PST by PeachyKeen
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Future waves of pneumonic plague are possible too. What is being done about that?


10 posted on 02/04/2022 12:28:05 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’d think real scientists would be suing these hacks-n-quacks for fraud in the use of scientist in their selling of their modelling results.


11 posted on 02/04/2022 12:35:00 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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“Scientists” SHEESH!


12 posted on 02/04/2022 12:36:23 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CCP genocide games will host the globes athletes to create a superspreaders event just like the military athletic games that served as the superspreaders event that started the first wave.

I think I’m seeing a pattern.


13 posted on 02/04/2022 12:41:41 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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Future asteroid hits are distinct possibilities.


14 posted on 02/04/2022 12:45:50 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s time to find all these “experts”, drag them into the streets, strip them naked, and drive them into the howling wilderness.

L


15 posted on 02/04/2022 12:47:00 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Is that the same UK modelers that completely flubbed the initial Covid predictions?! 🤪


16 posted on 02/04/2022 12:57:57 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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“LONDON — There is a realistic possibility of large waves of COVID-19 infection in the future in Britain and such waves might even be considered likely,”

In the past, viruses came, cause illnesses, mutated and died out. There is a high probability Covid-19 is following that process and we should just move on like we did then. Maybe what we really to worry about is another Fauci sponsored “gain of function” virus that the Chinese are probably working on will get loose and have a 99% mortality rate.


17 posted on 02/04/2022 1:04:19 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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I wouldn’t doubt they have a few more viruses for us. What about the truckload of bio warfare monkeys they released last week in Pennsylvania?


18 posted on 02/04/2022 1:19:02 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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I wonder if they’ve ever heard of cold and flu season.


20 posted on 02/04/2022 1:43:57 PM PST by Trillian
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