Medical Xpress November 24, 2025
The UK was one of the most locked-down countries in the world during the COVID pandemic, but this was not inevitable—it was a failure of public health policy.
That should be the lasting legacy of the UK COVID inquiry’s latest report, not a critique of politicians no longer in office.
In a public health emergency, saving lives will always be the first priority, but even as COVID raged, it was never a binary choice between harsher restrictions or more deaths. The choice was between different ways to protect people from a dangerous virus.
In 2020, governments that had never previously contemplated lockdowns imposed them anyway. On March 23, the UK population was ordered to stay at home, without any assessment...
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