How to respond to Omicron: lessons from Alpha
When advisors warned of ‘significant concerns’ about the Alpha variant, the UK government acted quickly. But suspicions about Alpha’s greater transmissibility were first noted a week earlier. Jonathan Birch (LSE) suggests that when the stakes are so high, even low confidence in a particular outcome can be enough to justify policy interventions. As I write … Continue reading How to respond to Omicron: lessons from Alpha
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