Health
A call to arms unheeded: how No 10’s relationship with its scientists broke down – The Guardian
The rupture in the consensus for tackling coronavirus began a month ago as Boris Johnson tried to placate lockdown sceptics
The base will not be sufficient.
With owlish understatement, the chief medical officer for England, Chris Whitty, made clear that Boris Johnsons three-tier local lockdowns, which the prime minister had just set out alongside him in Downing Street, would not curb the second wave of coronavirus crashing over England.
Just hours later, a startling late-night document dump from the governments Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) confirmed in stark terms that Johnson had parted ways wi…
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