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Coronavirus: Neil Ferguson says lockdown a week earlier would have cut death toll by half

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The Imperial College academic whose research prompted Boris Johnson to introduce the lockdown has said the death toll could have been halved if it had been introduced a week earlier. Ferguson told the Commons science committee the policies to protect care homes and the elderly ‘failed to be enacted’ Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson takes briefing after Neil Ferguson says lockdown a week earlier would have halved death toll ► https://www.theguardian.com/politics/... Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contr... Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/seri... The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ►    / theguardian   Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture ...more
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Coronavirus: Neil Ferguson says lockdown a week earlier would have cut death toll by half
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2020Jun 10
The Imperial College academic whose research prompted Boris Johnson to introduce the lockdown has said the death toll could have been halved if it had been introduced a week earlier. Ferguson told the Commons science committee the policies to protect care homes and the elderly ‘failed to be enacted’ Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson takes briefing after Neil Ferguson says lockdown a week earlier would have halved death toll ► https://www.theguardian.com/politics/... Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contr... Today in Focus podcast ► https://www.theguardian.com/news/seri... The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ►    / theguardian   Owen Jones talks ► http://bit.ly/subsowenjones Guardian Football ► http://is.gd/guardianfootball Guardian Sport ► http://bit.ly/GDNsport Guardian Culture ► http://is.gd/guardianculture

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