Covid-19 roundup: Epi­demi­ol­o­gist cred­it­ed for shap­ing UK pol­i­cy vi­o­lates lock­down mea­sures; Here's Gilead’s glob­al plan for mass man­u­fac­tur­ing remde­sivir

Epi­demi­ol­o­gist Neil Fer­gu­son, a pro­fes­sor at Im­pe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don, was the man who spear­head­ed the study that was in large part re­spon­si­ble for the UK gov­ern­ment chang­ing its ap­proach to im­ple­ment­ing lock­down mea­sures mid-March, af­ter his group’s mod­el­ing sug­gest­ed the pre­vi­ous strat­e­gy could have killed 250,000 peo­ple in the UK and over­whelmed the Na­tion­al Health Ser­vice (NHS).

Days af­ter the re­search was pub­lished, Fer­gu­son said he was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing symp­toms of Covid-19. On Tues­day, a re­port by the Dai­ly Tele­graph sug­gest­ed said he had been vis­it­ed by a 38-year old woman on two oc­ca­sions, in breach of lock­down mea­sures that on­ly al­low cit­i­zens to leave their homes to shop for food, for ex­er­cise or med­ical needs, or if they can­not work from home.

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