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‘Groupthink’ led advisers to urge UK to prepare for wrong pandemic, says ex-chief medical officer – SamfordCrimson News – The Samford Crimson
Scientific advisers were guilty of “groupthink” when they told ministers to prepare for the wrong sort of pandemic, the former chief medical officer has told MPs….
Scientific advisers were guilty of “groupthink” when they told ministers to prepare for the wrong sort of pandemic, the former chief medical officer has told MPs.
Dame Sally Davies suggested advisers had shown “a form of British exceptionalism” in the years leading up to the Covid crisis by ignoring lessons from other countries. Instead, she said, they decided that the next disease to strike the UK would be influenza rather than a Sars-like virus.
That meant Britain never practised how to “step…
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