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An inconvenient truth

An inconvenient truth

Some people, though, are still clutching at straws

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 23, 2020
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The British government’s chief medical officer and chief scientist, professors Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance, told the country on Monday that Covid-19 infections were doubling every seven days. If this continued, it would result in 50,000 new infections per day by mid-October and 200 deaths per day a couple of weeks later.

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