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Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in one generation

Richard Horton

The Guardian

Overview

Richard Horton, director of The Lancet, discusses the relationship between scientific knowledge and political decision in the face of emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic to understand how the tension between scientific recommendations in conditions of uncertainty and unpredictability and political priorities governments have made the global response to the pandemic as what the author describes as the greatest failure of global science policy ever.