Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

Published: June 10, 2020, 8:30 a.m.

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At the start of March the government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said that the UK\\u2019s coronavirus outbreak was four weeks behind the epidemic in Italy. This ability to watch other countries deal with the disease ahead of us potentially influenced the decisions we made about which actions to take and when, including lockdown. So was he right?

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