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Dispatches documentary tonight on the second UK COVID wave

Started by Fambo Number Mive, May 17, 2021, 04:32:30 PM

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Fambo Number Mive

On at 10pm, entitled "Second Wave Did the Government Get It Wrong?"

From the Channel 4 website:

QuoteWhy did two thirds of Britain's Covid deaths come after September 2020? Dispatches examines the role that the Prime Minister's decisions played in the second wave.

From the Guardian

Quote...A Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on Monday will also raise new questions about the government's pandemic response. In it Prof Sharon Peacock of Public Health England, who runs the UK programme for tracing variants and is a member of Sage, denies that the emergence of the Kent variant late last year was down to bad luck. That variant led to the second wave of Covid and led to many thousands of deaths.

It also examines why Johnson invited Prof Sunetra Gupta and Prof Carl Heneghan, two prominent academics who had argued against blanket lockdowns, to join a zoom call with him and Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, last September, around the time he was being advised by Sage to instigate an immediate two-week lockdown – a meeting first disclosed by the Guardian...

Sounds like an interesting watch.