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UK scientist: Week earlier lockdown could have halved deaths

by Associated Press
| June 10, 2020 10:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — A scientist whose modeling helped set Britain’s coronavirus strategy said Wednesday that the country’s death toll in the pandemic could have been cut in half if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier.

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