Covid-19 spilling out of hospitals and care homes, says UK expert
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5476P)
Prof Neil Ferguson tells Lords committee cases will remain steady until September
Coronavirus infections in hospitals and care homes are spilling into the community and sustaining the outbreak to the point that cases will remain steady until September, a leading scientist has warned.
Prof Neil Ferguson, the head of the outbreak modelling group at Imperial College London, said he was shocked at how poorly care homes had been protected from the virus and that infections in UK care homes and hospitals were now feeding into the epidemic in the wider community.
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