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Lockdown didn't save lives from cancer

6 July 2021

8:13 PM

6 July 2021

8:13 PM

Everyone understood the government message in March 2020 to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives. Yet the lives that we knew were being saved were ones from Covid-19. Anything more long-term than daily figures never registered. The concept of other causes of death – most devastatingly cancer – were secondary concerns.

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