Angela McLean, the Government's Chief Scientist, told the Covid Inquiry that the U.K.'s 'circuit breaker' lockdowns in 2020 cut Covid infections. That's not what the data show, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
It has been reported that Government officials and advisers are currently drawing up plans to implement a two-week 'circuit breaker' lockdown, which would come into force just after Christmas.
Worried about a potential Covid outbreak, two schools in England have stopped in-person teaching for at least a week by imposing their own 'circuit-breaker' lockdown.
Dominic Cummings's latest attack on Boris relies on a naive faith in lockdowns. In fact, Boris was right to resist calls for a 'circuit breaker' last autumn and right to push back against calls for a second lockdown.
