{"id":854,"date":"2026-08-01T11:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/?post_type=te_announcements&#038;p=854"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:36:14","slug":"no-covid-outbreaks-linked-to-rammed-beaches-scientist-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/announcement\/no-covid-outbreaks-linked-to-rammed-beaches-scientist-tells-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"No Covid outbreaks linked to rammed beaches, scientist tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, told the Science and Technology Committee: \u201cOver the summer we were treated to all this on the television news and pictures of crowded<br \/>\nbeaches, and there was an outcry about this.<br \/>\n\u201cThere were no outbreaks linked to crowded beaches, there\u2019s never been a Covid-19 outbreak linked to a beach ever anywhere in the world to the best of my knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s reasonable to say let\u2019s not have Covid winters that are any worse than bad flu winters. But, actually, bad flu winters could be quite bad,\u201d Professor Dame Angela McLean, chief scientific adviser at the Ministry of Defence said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/No-Covid-outbreaks-linked-to-rammed-beaches-scientist-tells-MPs-_-Evening-Standard.pdf\">No Covid outbreaks linked to rammed beaches, scientist tells MPs _ Evening Standard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-854","te_announcements","type-te_announcements","status-publish","hentry"],"announcement_date":"Announcement Date: February 17, 2021","announcement_image":{"iframe":false,"url":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bournemouth.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/te_announcements"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/InformationTerrorist\/CovidTimeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}