After Claiming That 500,000 Will Die In The U.K. Because Of Covid-19, Researchers At Imperial College London Now Expect 20,000 Deaths, Less Than The 29,000 Who Die From The Flu Each Year

If left unchecked, the virus could have killed 40 million people and infected around seven billion people. Pictured: EMTs lift a coronavirus patient into an ambulance in New York City, March 26

Daily Mail: If the much of the world hadn't gone on lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, the disease might have killed 40 million and sickened BILLIONS, study finds

* Researchers at Imperial College London looked at a model of what would have happened if no countries took measures against the coronavirus
* If left unchecked, the virus could have killed 40 million people and infected around seven billion people
* But certain actions such as social distancing can cut the death toll by at least 95 percent, saving 38.7 million lives
* In the US, a scenario in which no measures were put in place could have led to 2.18 million deaths, and in the UK to 490,000 deaths

If no measures had been taken to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, 40 million people could have died, a new UK study finds.

Researchers at Imperial College London made the findings based on analysis which estimated the potential scale of the pandemic across the world.

But with mitigation strategies such as protecting the elderly and social distancing, the death toll could by anywhere from 50 percent to 95 percent, saving 38 million people.

In the model, the team found that, if left unchecked, around seven billion people could have been infected - about 90 percent of the global population.

Worldwide 500,000 people so far have been been infected and more than 23,000 people have died.

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Update: UK has enough intensive care units for coronavirus, expert predicts (New Scientist)

WNU Editor: This is disturbing. The researchers at the Imperial College of London were the first to warn that a disaster was coming, and many political leaders, governments, and the media listened to them and publicized their conclusions. And now they are admitting that their computer models were wrong, and are justifying this mistake and the panic that they caused by saying that the situation on the ground has changed. For more on this remarkable change in predictions from the Imperial College of London go here. There are currently 14,735 cases in the U.K., and 761 deaths.

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