direct to your inboxAt least 20,000 lives could have been saved if lockdown had come earlier at the start of the pandemic, the former chief scientific adviser to the government has claimed.Speaking at the second session of the 'People's Covid Inquiry', Professor Sir David King, chairman of Independent SAGE - a panel of scientists not officially recognised by the government - claimed that Whitehall's failure to act more urgently had come at a great cost.At the discussion, hosted by the campaigning group 'Keep Our NHS Public', Sir David described the government's initial reaction as 'extremely tardy'.He said the country's leaders had 'no understanding' of the risk involved, adding: "If we had gone into lockdown on March 3 the spread of the.
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