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By Dr. Brian McDonough, Medical Editor
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Many key decisions related to COVID-19 have been made by politicians, but they are only as good as their medical advisors.
Most politicians want to do the right thing, but they also like to stay in power. The infectivity of COVID-19 demands that people remain separated to stop the spread, not the kind of message that makes a leader popular.
In an effort to be fair, I will look at the latest example: in January, the U.K. had the highest per capita daily death toll of any other country in the world — around twice that of the United States.
Objective science says a decision to allow tens of millions of people to travel and mix on Christmas, even in the face of a known mutant strain, was part of the problem. And things could possibly get worse: in an effort to appear as if they are doing more, government leaders have instructed the National Health Service to break with science and give one dose of the two-dose vaccine.
The countries doing the best are those where leaders follow the science.
