Health
England’s bungled response to Covid-19 leaves it vulnerable to more outbreaks – The Guardian
Scotland’s combination of clear messaging and caution looks to have been a better model, says professor of veterinary epidemiology Rowland Kao
With evidence of new outbreaks of Covid-19 across many countries in Europe, and a day-on-day rise in cases in England over the last week, concerns about an imminent second wave are well-founded. Some argue that the term second wave is itself unhelpful as, unlike the rise and fall of seasonal flu or the catastrophic second wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the causes of this particular resurgence are entirely due to human factors.
The imposition of extreme lockdown restrictions in most countr…
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