Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the UK COVID-19 Inquiry that the 'hazards and threats' from a pandemic are 'going to be completely different every time' and spoke of lockdown being a 'very radical thing to do'
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"However, the very big new idea was the idea of a lockdown," he said."I'm talking here very, very specifically about the state saying people have to go home and stay at home, except under very limited circumstances - a very radical thing to do." Under questioning from Hugo Keith KC, lead counsel to the inquiry, Sir Chris also said:"I certainly agree that we did not give sufficient thought to what we could do to stop, in its tracks, a pandemic on the scale of COVID, or indeed any other pathogen that could realistically go there.
"We do still need to be able to say, 'let's go to the top of the range, actually, we could end up with 750,000 people dying, where are we going to bury bodies?' "These are important, they may seem morbid, but they are practically important... in this sense, I do think a plan is important."
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