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Whitty implored officials not to use terms like ‘flatten curve’, Covid inquiry told

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Si Chris Whitty ty spent early parts of th Covid id pandemic trying to “implore’ people in government not to publicly discuss health concepts they didn’t fully understand such as “flattening the curve” of infections and herd immunity.

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informal

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English

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58

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