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Trish Greenhalgh

Trish Greenhalgh is a professor of primary care health sciences at Oxford University

July 2021

  • Nightclubs are set to reopen from 19 July

    Is it wise to lift England’s Covid restrictions fully?

    Dominic Wilkinson and Trish Greenhalgh
    The cases for and against the final easing of rules on ‘freedom day’ of 19 July

October 2020

  • Pedestrians cross the Millennium Bridge in a quiet London, as it enters a new phase of lockdown.

    The pursuit of herd immunity is a folly – so who's funding this bad science?

    Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving
    Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving

August 2020

  • Boris Johnson visits Castle Rock school in Coalville.

    On masks in schools – like everything else in this pandemic – Johnson is winging it

    Trish Greenhalgh
    The government has flip-flopped on the evidence once again. This is bad science, and even worse politics, says Trish Greenhalgh of the University of Oxford

June 2020

  • Customers queue to enter a Waterstones shop in Guildford, Surrey that reopened on 15 June.

    While other countries are recovering from Covid-19, Britain is still in intensive care

    Trish Greenhalgh and Andrew Sentance
  • Public Transport masks<br>© Joel Goodman for the Guardian - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 03/06/2020 . Manchester , UK . A tram passengers wearing a mask . Public transport users pictured wearing masks as they use buses and trams in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester City Centre . Photo credit : Joel Goodman

    We can't be 100% sure face masks work – but that shouldn't stop us wearing them

    Trish Greenhalgh