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How Britain (narrowly) avoided lockdown last Christmas

21 December 2022

12:05 AM

21 December 2022

12:05 AM

Exactly a year ago today, the cabinet met to decide whether or not to lock down to tackle Omicron. At the time, published Sage documents had outlined a range of 600 to 6,000 daily deaths unless more action was taken. Recalling the anniversary, I had an interesting exchange with Graham Medley, who chaired the SPI-M modelling committee that fed into Sage.

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