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Neil Ferguson: delay in lockdown UK’s ‘biggest’ pandemic mistake

Ex-adviser to UK government praises global scientific community’s ‘remarkable’ response and criticises ‘false narrative’ that he was ‘responsible’ for lockdowns

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