Decisions were 'finely balanced' and, with hindsight, might have been different, Fiona Scolding KC says.
The pandemic was a "confused period akin to war", the lawyer for the Department of Health and Social Care has told the Covid inquiry.
On Wednesday, in her opening statement, Ms Scolding said the government would not argue it had got everything right in its response to Covid. And it was important to maintain advances made during the pandemic, such as they way data was collected and presented. And it had been "a reasonable bet", before 2020, another one might follow, infectious-diseases expert and former professor of international public health Jimmy Whitworth said.
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