Failed herd immunity strategy demands honesty | Letter

The UK public health community, along with the government, ignored the evidence that Covid could be suppressed, writes Dr Greg Philo

Laura Spinney offers a defence for the worst public health disaster in a hundred years, saying that scientists were in the dark" (Covid lawsuits and inquiries are looming - but blame won't prevent future pandemics, 29 September).

In fact, a section of the UK public health community had embraced the deeply flawed approach of herd immunity, and, along with the government, flatly ignored the evidence coming from abroad that the virus could be suppressed.