Ministers were urged to stop discussing “ridiculous” and “dangerous” herd immunity policies in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Chris Whitty has said.
According to Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, there was a “large amount of chatter” on the topic – mainly from people who “had, at best, half understood” it.
And such was his concern about the “considerable confusion” being generated in Westminster and among the public at large over the issue, he attempted to limit discussion of controversial interventions such as the so-called ‘Great Barrington Declaration’, an open letter signed by academics urging the government not to impose further lockdowns.
