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March 19, 2020

British PM Boris Johnson Closes Schools After Reversing Lax Virus Containment Plan
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered schools closed across
the United Kingdom beginning Friday. Johnson reversed course this week
after initially favoring a strategy to let the virus burn rapidly
through the population in order to build "herd immunity." He abandoned
the approach after a study estimated that, without mitigation, a quarter