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Boffin warns Britain STILL faces ‘hundreds of deaths a day’
A TOP boffin last night rained on Britain’s COVID hopes by claiming the country could still slip into triple-figure daily virus deaths.
Ray of sunshine Professor Graham Medley, from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) advising the government, warned it is still possible the nation could return to seeing hundreds of deaths a day.
“Although the numbers of deaths are low at the moment, everyone expects they will rise. The question is really as to what level they will rise,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“At the moment there is a lot of uncertainty in what’s going to happen over the next couple of months.”
Asked whether the nation could have returned to hundreds of deaths a day again had restrictions been lifted, Prof Medley said: “Oh, easily. I think we still might at some point.
“Remember, the government risks are not the same as individual, personal risks.
“My kind of risks are about whether or not I get ill or whether or not I die. Government risks are primarily based upon the healthcare and whether the healthcare can continue to function.
“And so they’re really focused very much on how many people end up in hospital, how many people end up in high dependency in hospital, and it’s really that is the focus of their risk and thinking about what should the government do to prevent those bad things happening.
“So it’s really an uncertainty at the moment, it’s too early to say for sure what will happen at the peak of this next epidemic.”
Pressed on the notion of seeing hundreds of deaths each day again, he added: “It’s not a certainty. There is a lot of uncertainty, but I think that’s quite possible.”
MODEL Chrissy Teigen has returned to social media and apologised for cyberbullying, saying: “I was a troll, full stop, and I am so sorry”.
The TV presenter ( above), 35, said in a blog: “Confronted with some of the things I said, I cringe to my core.”
She added that when she had started to use social media she “had so much fun with it” but had also started to use it to “snark at some celebrities”.
She went on to say that she had since realised that “words have consequences”, adding: “There are real people behind the Twitter handles I went after. I wasn’t just attacking some random Twitter avatar but hurting young women, some who were still girls, who had feelings.
“How did I not realise my words were cruel? What gave me the right to say these things?”
A FAST food delivery driver delivered threats to McDonald’s workers after they wouldn’t let him order Happy Meals during breakfast hours.
James Springer, 36, raged and promised to return to the eatery in Aquia, Virginia, and “execute everyone”.
Springer (above) flashed his BB gun from his Toyota sedan in two separate incidents, later telling police he thought that was legal because of “decriminalization efforts”, a sheriff’s office Facebook post said.
While cops looked for him after he left the McDonald’s, he allegedly flashed the gun at another car at an intersection, then apparently cocked the gun and pointed it at someone in a parked car at a bakery.
Springer returned to McDonald’s, where he allegedly used “abusive and threatening language” towards a customer.
He was arrested and is facing charges of disorderly conduct, abusive language and four counts of brandishing.