Thread by @VanessaBeeley

1. DOCTOR Malcolm Kendrick on #Covid_19 lockdown policy:

"How many people aged 15 or under hve died of Covid-19? Four. The chance of dying from a lightning strike is one in 700,000. The chance of dying of Covid-19 in that age grp is one in 3.5million. & we locked them all down"

2. "Even among the 15- to 44-year-olds, the death rate is very low and the vast majority of deaths have been people who had significant underlying health conditions. We locked them down as well."

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3. "We locked down population that had virtually zero risk of getting any serious problems from the disease, and then spread it wildly among the highly vulnerable age group. If you had written a plan for making a complete bollocks of things you would have come up with this one."

4. Dr Malcolm Kendrick is a GP and author of Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice from Medical Nonsense.

"This initial response was understandable, but it quite rapidly became clear that it was an overreaction."

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5. "We are spending as much on Covid-19 as we would spend on the NHS in three normal years. You have got to ask the question of what we are going to get from that. Refusing to engage that question is political cowardice."

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