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Coronavirus: Whitty and Vallance faced ‘herd immunity’ backlash, emails show – BBC News
Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance were alarmed by questions over the controversial concept, emails show.
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Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance came under fire at the start of the pandemic
As the UK introduces fresh restrictions on social contact to curb the spread of coronavirus, controversy continues to rage about whether the government had initially considered trying a very different approach.
At the start of the pandemic, the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, spoke about “herd immunity” – the idea that once enough of a populatio…
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