“One of the worst public health failures in the country’s history” was the verdict of a House of Commons report in October 2021. “Epidemiological stupidity,” said Dr Mike Ryan, the UN global health body’s head of emergencies, before July’s “freedom day”. For most of 2020 Britain had one of the highest excess death tolls. Our economy was hit harder than any other G7 nation, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures, even adjusting for differences in counting. SponsoredSo it surprised some when the epidemiologist Professor David Heymann said on Tuesday that Britain would

Source: The Times January 16, 2022 04:41 UTC