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  • 3 years ago
England's chief medical officer, Professor Sir Chris Whitty has told the Covid Inquiry the UK went into the first lockdown "too late". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We essentially had two different things we were trying to balance.
00:03 The risk of going too early, in which case you get all the damages from this with actually
00:09 fairly minimal impact on the epidemic, and the risk of going too late, in which case
00:14 you get all the problems of the pandemic running away.
00:17 Now, as we will, I'm sure, come on to, my view is with the benefit of hindsight we went
00:22 a bit too late on the first way.

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