BBC Created ‘Misleading’ Risk to Justify Covid Lockdown, Claims Former Government Adviser

The BBC created a “misleading” risk of COVID-19 to provide justification for lockdown during the pandemic, an adviser to the Scottish government has claimed. Giving evidence to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry on Wednesday, Professor Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said that the state broadcaster created a “misleading impression” of the risks of COVID-19 to the general population. In a written statement, former SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) member Mr. Woolhouse said that in the media, “BBC television news repeatedly reported rare deaths or illnesses among healthy adults as if they were the norm, again creating a misleading impression of who was at greater or lesser risk.”...