Excellent discussion of contradictory facets in UK government policy for tackling the pandemic published in the The Guardian (access here) on 12 May, by Devi Lalita Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh. One: track, trace, tame? Two: slow the spread, build health capacity for cycles of lockdown and release? Three: do nothing, brave new herd immunity world with UK millions dead? No, even better – a headless chicken tack between them – “It’s almost impossible to decipher which path the UK government has chosen. Over the past months, its response has vacillated from the third approach to the second and, more recently, to the first”. Important reading.
