26 Jan 2022

Did the Covid models get it wrong?

Newspaper headlines were full of fears about millions of Covid cases a day but that did not happen – so what’s going on?

Tomorrow, plan B measures end in England, with face masks no long needed in public places and Covid passports dropped after only a few weeks in use. Boris Johnson said the Omicron wave had peaked nationally.

But before Christmas, newspaper headlines were full of fears about millions of cases a day and the NHS being overwhelmed like never before.

That did not happen – so what’s going on and were the Covid models wrong?

FactCheck’s Georgina Lee explains it all.

Sources: DW News, BBC News, The Telegraph

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