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Opinion: We Could Be Collecting Data on Coronavirus Cases, but the Government is Afraid of Being Embarrassed
Testing on the scale seen in countries like Korea might not be possible, but there are other ways the UK could gather data on the spread of Covid-19, writes junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein. The problem may be that the government doesn't want to make too much data public.