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An open letter to new health secretary, Sajid Javid, as he takes on COVID

By Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

Dear Mr Javid,

Congratulations on your appointment as secretary of state for health and social care. As you said in your acceptance tweet, this is a critical time for the health of the nation. The fight against coronavirus is far from over. Around 128,000 people in the UK have already died; many hundreds fall sick daily. But there are some grounds for optimism.

Almost half the adult population is

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