Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?
The Interview6 Jan 2021

Neil Ferguson: Did the UK get its Covid strategy wrong?

Stephen Sackur speaks to British epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson, whose early modelling of Covid-19 made him an influential advocate of the lockdown strategy. The UK is back in lockdown and infections are surging. What has gone wrong, and why have other countries done better?

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