50,000 unnecessary deaths?

The COVID Diaries – 150 30th August

Sir David King, a former chief scientific adviser, has claimed that the United Kingdom is facing up to 50,000 unnecessary deaths because Boris Johnson’s government “consciously allowed” coronavirus to spread.

King described the official response to the pandemic as a “complete cock-up by government”, driven in part by a desire to maintain secrecy around the scientific advice it was receiving.