I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire | Curio
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I’m an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain’s ‘herd immunity’ coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire

7 mins | Mar 17, 2020
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Is the UK's approach to the coronavirus pandemic gambling with people's lives? "Vulnerable people should not be exposed to COVID-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future," says William Hanage, professor of evolution and epidemiology of infectious diseases at Harvard. Writing in the Guardian, he sounds the alarm on Britain's coronavirus plan.

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