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June 2021

UK planning at the start of the pandemic involved allowing the majority of the population to become infected with covid between April and September…

May 2021

What it was, where it came from, and how it was abandoned
Why Western public health went all-in on a campaign against masks.
Early in 2020 as the pandemic began to surge around the world, Asia and the West were divided on whether people should wear facemasks to try and…
Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to…

April 2021

Most people don’t pay that much attention to the news Most people who do read news get their info from journalists focused on a narrow range of topics…

January 2021

Welcome to Lessons From The Crisis. We’ll be exploring the covid pandemic as it happened, looking at the science, politics, forecasts and…