Massive confounding factor here is that starting around April seasonality into summer was putting massive downward pressure on the epidemic across Europe anyway. There's no mention of attempting to control for this effect in the paper.
As it happens the UK's second wave kicked into exponential increase around mid August - the only major public health policy intervention coincident with this was mandatory mask wearing. So yeah.
As it happens the UK's second wave kicked into exponential increase around mid August - the only major public health policy intervention coincident with this was mandatory mask wearing. So yeah.