Timely circuit-break lockdown would have prevented need for longer-term restrictions

Professor Andrew Hayward (UCL Epidemiology & Health) explains how UK Government ministers ignored Sage experts’ advice to implement shorter lockdowns weeks ago, which would have reduced the need for much more intensive and longer term lockdowns in the future.

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