Prof Neil Ferguson denies he 'stepped over the line' as a government adviser on Covid.
There was a "lack of urgency" in government as coronavirus started to spread across the UK, a senior scientific adviser has told the Covid public inquiry.
Senior officials, including then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson and then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock, will give evidence to the inquiry in December.Prof Ferguson, director of the school of public health at Imperial College London, became a household name in the early stages of the pandemic with his modelling of the spread of Covid and as a member of the expert committee, Sage.
Around the end of February he said he knew that the number of hospital cases was likely to overwhelm the NHS without stronger action to reduce transmission. Asked why he sent the message, Prof Ferguson said: "It felt uncomfortable, but at the time it felt like it needed to be said. I was increasingly concerned about this disconnect between the numbers we were actually presenting, and the reality of what that would actually look like."
Prof Ferguson, who apologised to the inquiry for breaching Covid rules himself, denied stepping "over the line" as an adviser and telling ministers they needed to shut down the country.
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