MISLEADING: DO NOT SHARE
Claim:
UK residents shouldn’t leave home on a certain date in April as the risk of contracting the virus reached a ‘peak’.
Answer:
Misleading. At the time it was too early to know the peak of the pandemic.
FURTHER INFORMATION
The Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England said on Thursday 26th March that “it would be far too early to predict” a peak in Coronavirus infections as social distancing measures have only just begun.
The aim of the UK Government’s social distancing measures is to avoid such an acute peak of infections during a short period, instead to spread that peak, or ‘flatten the curve’, over a longer period of time in order to decrease the burden on critical care facilities across the UK.
SOURCE
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries in “Chancellor Rishi Sunak hosts a press conference on coronavirus (26 March 2020) (from 13:04)
Source
UK Government – Update from SAGE: Delay phase modelling
Origins of Claim
FULL TEXT OF CLAIM
This is a text from an NHS worker
As of tomorrow, do not leave home for bread for anything!
Because the worst begins tomorrow as the incubation date is met and many people that are positive with the virus start to peak!! It’s at this important time other people are most vulnerable! so it is very important to stay home and not to be in contact with anybody, even members of your own family if possible!! Being very careful is very important and very crucial at this time!!
As from tomorrow we are going to see the start of the peak of those that are positive, then there will be two weeks of calm and then two weeks where it decreases.
What happened in Italy is that they neglected the contagion period and is why all the cases tuned out together and so badly, plus they didn’t know what they were dealing with *
And finally, please do not revive visits from anyone, not even from the same family. This is for the good of all. *
WE WILL BE AT THE MAXIMUM STAGE OF INFECTION.
*DO NOT HOLD ON TO THIS MESSAGE PASS IT ON TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS*
