'Following the science' rhetoric led to delay to UK COVID-19 lockdown, face mask rules

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The UK government's insistence that it was simply "following the science" during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic was a big factor in the costly delay to the nation's first lockdown and postponed the introduction of face masks rules, according to an independent report....