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"While emphasising it was “very difficult to make precise predictions”, he added: “I think it’s almost certain we’ll get to 1,000 hospitalisations per day.Did you bother reading that link? You know, exactly what I posted above?
Dealer said 'SAGE predicted 200,000 a day by Aug 1st loooooool'
SAGE didn't predict anything of the sort. Ferguson said
Prof Neil Ferguson said it was “almost inevitable” that Monday’s final phase of unlocking would bring on 100,000 daily cases, with about 1,000 hospitalisations – despite roughly half the UK being fully vaccinated. He added that he could foresee a situation in which the case rate expands to twice the size.
“The real question is do we get to double that – or even higher,” he told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday,. “And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. I mean, we could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day – but it’s much less certain.”
That is not predicting 200000 cases, it's saying he could see it being so many. Just like the initial modelling was based on worse case scenario. Doesn't mean it will. I would quote the part where he mentions August 1st, but as it isn't mentioned, I can't. That was probably just dealer's fantasy. Maybe ask him where he got his 'facts' from though, he won't answer anyone else with questions like that, maybe he will you.
“It’ll almost certainly get to 100,000 cases a day. The real question is, do we get to double that or even higher? And that’s where the crystal ball starts to fail. We could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day, but it’s much less certain.”
Professor Neil Ferguson also said high levels of infection rates could push up the number of people suffering from long Covid.
“We know now that probably around a quarter of people who get symptomatic Covid – get symptoms – have those symptoms for a long period of time,” he said.
He added that according to Office of National Statistics figures “about a million” people had long Covid and this could “go up to another half million on top of that”."
He even went further and proposed it could be more than 200,000. Dealer can hardly be accused of lying or trolling with what he said. Ferguson predicted that it could be even more than 200,000 cases. Even if he said he could expect just 1000 per day it is still only a prediction.
You are simply wrong and dealer was correct.