SA's Nobel prizewinning scientist Prof Michael Levitt: Lockdowns are 'a huge mistake' #BestofBizNews

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Prof Michael Levitt, a product of Pretoria Boys High whose family left for England when he was 15, is a recipient of science’s greatest honour – the Nobel Prize. As you’ll hear in the highlights of this interview with Freddie Sayers of UnHerd.com, the 72- year old professor of computer science and structural biology at California’s top university, Stanford, still possesses his South African accent. The globally respected scientist who has been tracking the Covid-19 data since January, has a critical message for the land of his birth – the lockdown is a huge mistake and countries which have applied them will be harshly judged by future generations… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 Dec 2020 5AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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