calculations

Boris Johnson’s 10pm pubs curfew was based on ‘back of a fag packet calculations’

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Boris Johnson‘s 10pm curfew on pubs and restaurants was based on ‘back of the fag packet calculations’ and not advocated by Sage, Government sources have claimed.  Insiders said the tightening of coronavirus restrictions departed from the advice given by the Prime Minister’s top scientists and was not grounded in thorough research. Members of Sage, the … Read more

Coronavirus: How different countries value a life for calculations

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Health bosses place the value of a British life at around £2.4million, in a sobering calculation which has been thrown into the spotlight by the coronavirus crisis.  Doctors around the world have described making agonising life-or-death decisions about who can receive treatment when medical shortages mean that not every life can be saved.   Health experts … Read more