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Letter: For the record – {25 July 2020}

Published 22 July 2020

The estimated number of people who have contracted coronavirus in the UK according to SeroTracker is 5.13 per cent (20 June, p 10).

The source of the cholera outbreak that John Snow identified wasn’t the water pump handle, but the water being pumped (6 June, p 54).

Issue no. 3292 published 25 July 2020

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