Locking down Britain sooner would have saved thousands of lives, according to Neil Ferguson. But while Ferguson’s claims have been rightly contested – and the merits of shutting down Britain, particularly in view of today’s woeful GDP figures – remain debatable, one thing is very clear: lockdown is having a dreadful effect on the lives of many.
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Carl Heneghan is a professor and Tom Jefferson is a senior tutor at Oxford's centre for evidence-based medicine
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