London (CNN) Is the damage caused by the lockdown worse than the virus itself? "What I think they [the skeptics] are missing is this wasn't some left-wing conspiracy to stop the economy from working. Nor is there enough data to say lockdowns are more deadly than the disease -- which has infected over 5.5 million people worldwide and killed more than 350,000. But there is no precedent to the scale of the lockdowns enacted around the world to combat the coronavirus. The question, he said, is more pressing in countries where millions "badly need to have an economy that is working and growing."

Source: CNN May 29, 2020 09:56 UTC