1. Thread about this Welt story from early Feb It's about how Seehofer, German Minister of Interior, pressured epidemiologists at RKI (=German CDC) & other scientists to come up with a scary modelling study that would justify extending the 1st lockdownhttps://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus225868061/Corona-Politik-Wie-das-Innenministerium-Wissenschaftler-einspannte.html?cid=onsite.onsitesearch …
They didn‘t call on Ferguson personally, as far as I know, but they were advised by a mysterious junior (German) assistant professor in China, Maximilian Mayer, who promoted the Imperial College model as the „gold standard“ in modelling.
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Mayer has no subject expertise, is professor of International Relations, but he forwards the BMI modellers all kinds of data about the Chinese response (some of which he says is ‚secret‘), the modellers defer to him, give him their materials for critique/corrections, etc.
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