UK Lockdown Advocate Neil Ferguson Quits After Backlash
May 6, 2020
12:20 pm
British leading epidemiologist Neil Ferguson resigned from Governmentβs Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) after media reported he broke social distancing rules.
Ferguson, who led the team at Imperial College London that advised the British government to take the national lockdown measures, told the Telegraph that he made an βerror of judgementβ.
He therefore stepped back from his involvement in SAGE on Tuesday.
According to the Telegraph, Ferguson allowed his friend, a married woman, to visit him at home on at least two occasions during the lockdown.
He thus broke …
