The only 'circuit break' in the pandemic we need now is from the government’s doom-mongering scientific advisers who specialise in causing panic and little else, say PROF CARL HENEGHAN and DR TOM JEFFERSON - Daily Mail

‘Circuit break’ may be a grave error with terrible consequences for the health of the British people and for the health of the country.
The Government is once again in the grip of doom-mongering scientific modellers who specialise in causing panic.
The latest reliable data from Spain (up to September 3) which does not indicate any sort of upward curve in infections, let alone one coming to get us here in Britain.
Anyone with clinical experience of dealing with respiratory viruses knows that the only certainty is uncertainty itself.
Making comparisons between countries using different national data with different definitions is no more useful than trying to compare apples and pears.
Latest study shows that nearly a third of all Covid-19 deaths recorded in July and August might have actually been the result of other causes –cancer, for example, or road traffic accidents.
Sweden has probably suppressed Covid-19 to the same level as Great Britain but without draconian measures.
Anyone going down with a new respiratory illness is likely to be suffering from a cold – not Covid.

Covid-19 accounts for an average of 11 of the 1,687 deaths in Britain every day, according to official statistics.