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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ella Pickover

Covid lockdown was a ‘failure of public health policy’, inquiry hears

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The coronavirus lockdown was a “failure of public health policy”, an expert has said as it emerged that top scientific modellers were never asked how to avoid the measure.

Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease and epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said lockdown should “always be a last resort” as he told a hearing the Government was not given a full range of options in the run-up to the November 2020 lockdown.

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