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Acting sooner on Coronavirus would have made 'big difference' to deaths says SAGE member

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Acting sooner on Coronavirus would have made a 'big difference' to the death rate, one of the Government's scientific advisors has said.

Sir Ian Boyd, a member of the Sage scientific advisory group, told the BBC that the number one issue is whether ministers could have acted earlier.

He also said he believes that some politicians "would have loved" to have reacted earlier, but that they thought it would not be feasible.

Speaking on the BBC's Coronavirus Newscast, Sir Ian said: "Acting very early was really important and I would have loved to have seen us acting a week or two weeks earlier and it would have made quite a big difference to the steepness of the curve of infection and therefore the death rate. "And I think that's really the

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