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Why Did the UK Have Such a Bad Covid-19 Epidemic?

We look back at the events of March 2020 to ask why things have gone so wrong - was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?

The UK has suffered one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus anywhere in the world. We鈥檝e been analysing the numbers for the last 14 weeks, and in the last programme of this More or Less series, we look back through the events of March 2020 to ask why things went so wrong - was it bad decision-making, bad advice, or bad luck?

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28 minutes

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  • Wed 1 Jul 2020 09:00
  • Wed 1 Jul 2020 21:00

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