In one extraordinary case a virologist and his family were placed in a safe house when a military sniper went on the run after leaving a note outlining his intentions to target virologists.
George Freeman said the UK has suffered so many Covid deaths because of its "very heavy" number of obese people.
The UK recorded 40,000 new cases on Tuesday - and its death rate is more than double that of France and Germany.
It's safe to say Brexit hasn't delivered yet - and these tabloid headlines prove it.
“Now we have a joke prime minister and a joke leader of the Labour Party and we obviously need a new political system," Cummings has said.
“It would appear that even senior government ministers were reluctant to push back on scientific advice that seemed to go against commonsense interpretations of the unfolding crisis,” said Professor Trish Greenhalgh.
Lord Michael Heseltine said the government is “lurching from crisis to crisis” and is “patently not in control” as they are facing warnings of a winter of discontent similar to the 1970s.
The former government minister’s family said he wanted to make a permanent difference to other people’s fight against the disease.
Public Health England refused to release a damning dossier from 2016 which modelled the impact of a coronavirus pandemic.