The COVID Inquiry was launched by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in June 2022, noting that the government's actions during the pandemic need to be put "under the microscope."
During testimony before the COVID Inquiry, Whitty discussed how the government early on in the pandemic struggled to properly communicate the dangers associated with COVID-19. He claimed that the balance in communicating the correct "level of concern" to the public was "really hard."
"I was worried at the beginning. I still worry, actually in retrospect, about whether we got the level of concern right," said Whitty. "Were we either overpitching it so that people were incredibly afraid of something where in fact, their actuarial risk was low, or we were not pitching it enough and therefore people didn't realize the risk they were walking into."
"I think that balance is really hard, and arguably, some people
would say we, if anything, overdid it, rather than under at the
beginning," continued Whitty. "There's certainly a range of opinions on
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