How to respond to Omicron: lessons from Alpha
Birch, J.
(26 November 2021)
How to respond to Omicron: lessons from Alpha.
LSE COVID-19 Blog.
(26 November 2021)
How to respond to Omicron: lessons from Alpha.
LSE COVID-19 Blog.
When advisors warned of ‘significant concerns’ about the Alpha variant, the UK government acted quickly. But suspicions about Alpha’s greater transmissibility were first noted a week earlier. Jonathan Birch (LSE) suggests that when the stakes are so high, even low confidence in a particular outcome can be enough to justify policy interventions.