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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a slow withdrawal from lockdown for England Credit: Leon Neal/PA SIR – The Prime Minister has said consistently that decisions about unlocking will rely on data. However, the latest decisions rely on more modelling by the same group of scientists whose previous predictions have been wildly inaccurate. I am not a scientist, but with current figures showing a significant drop in infections, deaths and hospital admissions, and with more vaccinations to come quickly, a projection of an additional 55,000 deaths if some restrictions are eased by Easter seems to me to be yet more scaremongering. ....