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Kit Yates

Dr Kit Yates is a mathematical biologist at the University of Bath and a member of Independent Sage.

Two years on, we can no longer accept so many children off school because of Covid

The government talks about “learning to live with Covid” but it has not learned anything about transmission in schools.

By Kit Yates

Two years on, we can no longer accept so many children off school because of Covid

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Why the government would be foolish to ditch lateral flow tests

They're the one part of Test and Trace that has proved a success.

By Kit Yates

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