Tim Spector

The second wave appears to have peaked before lockdown

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It was only four weeks ago that Boris Johnson plunged Britain into a second lockdown. The Prime Minister, flanked by Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance, said that he could not ignore the modelling. Deaths, the Prime Minister explained, could reach ‘several thousand a day’, with a ‘peak of mortality’ worse than April.

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Tim Spector
Tim Spector OBE Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London lead scientist on the Zoe Covid Symptom Study app and author of Spoon Fed: why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong (Vintage 2020).

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