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Andrews cherry picks virus 'science'

John Kehoe

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews claims the "science" leaves him with "no choice" but to continue indefinite lockdowns, writes John Kehoe.

Anyone who dares to question the world's harshest lockdown is against the science, the data and the facts, we are led to believe.

But scientific opinion on COVID-19 is increasingly turning against his blunt approach.

World Health Organisation special adviser David Nabarro, Harvard University epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff and Stanford Medicine professor of medicine and epidemiology John Ioannidis are some of the hundreds of international health experts now condemning lockdowns.

They warn of the diabolical "collateral damage" to the 99 per cent of people for whom COVID-19 is a very mild illness.

Read the full story here.

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