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Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty

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The Problem With Science Interfaces With Economics and Politics

I've been a bit, but dubious about money in general. I just don't know enough about non-pharmaceutical interventions to know whether that's even been tried before, or whether it would work. Can you just tell the old people to stay home and let everyone else go normally? Sweden is a very homogeneous, well-educated population. They've had the greatest number of deaths in Scandinavia. That's what the British aim to do, is keep their older people and vulnerable people safe and just let it go. It spectacularly did not work in Britain. And if we'd gone down that road, our population's a third of the UK. We would have had 40

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