{"id":3199,"date":"2023-11-20T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2023-11-21T04:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T09:25:14","slug":"former-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-19-inquiry-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/former-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-19-inquiry-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson \u2018bamboozled\u2019 by science, COVID-19 inquiry told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, his chief scientific adviser said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In keenly awaited testimony to the country\u2019s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated problems getting Johnson to understand the science and that he changed his mind on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m right in saying that the prime minister gave up science at 15,\u201d he said. \u201cI think he\u2019d be the first to admit it wasn\u2019t his forte and that he struggled with the concepts and we did need to repeat them \u2014 often.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, his chief scientific adviser said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In keenly awaited testimony to the country\u2019s public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated problems getting Johnson to understand the science and that he changed his mind on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/former-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-bamboozled-by-science-covid-19-inquiry-told\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson \u2018bamboozled\u2019 by science, COVID-19 inquiry told<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,605,97,606,14,50],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-inquiry","tag-pandemic-response","tag-public-inquiry","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}