Lockdowns and Restrictions

Patrick Vallance Seems to Have Forgotten He Was Once a Lockdown Sceptic Who Championed Herd Immunity

Patrick Vallance branded Chris Whitty a lockdown 'delayer', but he seems to have forgotten that before the first lockdown he was himself a champion of herd immunity and avoiding "hard suppression".
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UKHSA Pleads Poverty to Get Out of Appraising Lockdown Model Performance Despite £2.4 Billion Covid Budget

The UKHSA pleads poverty to get out of providing any systematic appraisal of the models it used to justify lockdown despite having a £2.4bn Covid budget for the coming year, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
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Covid Infections Peaked Prior to Lockdown – Any Policy Riding the ‘Down Wave’ Would Have Worked

As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
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Anders Tegnell’s ‘Secret’ Audience With the Scottish Covid Inquiry

In the latest example of how the Scottish Covid Inquiry is showing itself far less biased than the U.K one, Anders Tegnell has revealed that while he was snubbed by Hallett he was invited to make his case in Scotland.
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The Real Scandal is the Covid Inquiry’s Failure to Engage With the Evidence on Lockdown

The real Covid scandal is emerging right in front of the inquiry’s nose, writes Fraser Nelson: Britain could have escaped the horrors of lockdown, but nobody pulled apart the doom models driving it.
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