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Vallance and Whitty hit back over ‘scary’ lockdown graph criticism

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty (Parliament TV)
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Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty have come under fire over slides used during the weekend announcement of the second Covid-19 lockdown. Today, the pair hit back. 

A chart suggesting there could be up to 4,000 deaths per day by December under a reasonable worst-case scenario was described by Oxford expert Carl Heneghan as ‘now proven to be incorrect’.

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