Coronavirus: Is the government really ‘following the science’? - BBC Newsnight
May 7, 2020
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Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than three and a half million confirmed cases in 187 countries and over 250,000 people have lost their lives. So how is the UK government handling the crises?
Health Correspondent Deborah Cohen analyses some of the scientific justifications behind the UK's approach and takes a look at the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In response to the report, Imperial told Newsnight: "Imperial’s models and projections are updated and published on a daily basis as new information emerges and we continue to communicate estimated levels of uncertainty around them”
They added: “Our epidemiologists were, and are, very clear about where their expertise sits, and where other experts or wider society and government would be better placed to grapple with ethical or economic questions.”
A government spokesman told Newsnight: “From the very beginning of this crisis, we have listened to the advice of our world-leading scientists and medical experts and taken the right measures at the right time to defeat coronavirus."
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