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Coronapod: Does England's COVID strategy risk breeding deadly variants?

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Scientists are looking at this, to some extent, like a bit of experiment. This decision to relax public health policies really doesn't follow the kind of play book that we would expect from public health experts. Many scientists think that that is a deeply unethical thing to do. The idea you would permit, perhaps even encourage, natural infection of a disease like this in order to achieve herd immunity has never been advocated or tried before.

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