'the disastrous “herd immunity” policy'.
I think it is to early to say that before seeing how countries that locked down earlier do in the comming months.
The UK has 0.0859% of the global population and 11.43% of global covid-19 deaths.
I don't think it's too early to say.
That sentence has no scientific meaning whatsoever. In January China had 99% of all global deaths. But hey, Kieren McCarthy from San Francisco is an "Inter all-rounder" journalist and surely a person with profound insights into virology to make grand remarks like that.