Yesterday, Professor Graham Medley was answering questions from MPs on Commons Science and Technology Committee. The SAGE member said experts on the panel presented the Government with range of Omicron scenarios with the best-case scenario, predicted deaths peaking at 600 a day but said they could reach 6,000.
Deaths from the then-new variant of coronavirus instead peaked at less than 306 on January 1.
Grim modelling that over-egged the Omicron wave failed to 'accurately predict the numbers' because it did not factor in behaviour changes, one of the Government's chief pandemic advisers.
Professor Graham Medley (pictured), chair of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Modelling (Spi-M), which has advised the Government, answered tough questions from MPs.
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