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This piece fits with what I have heard.

A clique around Govt designed a high-risk ‘herd immunity’ strategy...

...that was shielded from peer review/ outside advice (arrogance about ‘the science’).

Then they realised they screwed up and pivoted hard. buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/10…
Science is an international team game.

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It is not a nationalistic “we’ll prove we’re smarter than you” game.

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The big question for me is... why did the UK *and the US* pivot at the same time on the same finding of a single (outlier) modelling group?

Were the US & UK sharing a “we’re cleverer than @WHO & world” strategy? If so - who were the link people connecting this arrogant approach?
This below goes a long way to answering it for me.

(That and, incidentally, Matthew Elliott appearing on Marr on March 15 to discuss US-UK trade deal and coronavirus)

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