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Does "watched through their fingers" mean "watched with embarrassment or with uneasiness"?
See the pic attached to have an impression of what is "watched through their fingers".
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A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric
What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19.
Mathematicians and public-health experts watched through their fingers in May as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a series of charts to explain how the government would guide Britain out of coronavirus lockdown. Perhaps most prominent was a colourful dial with a needle hovering near a single digit: 1.
Source: Nature July 3, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02009-w
watched through their fingers:
See the pic attached to have an impression of what is "watched through their fingers".
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A guide to R — the pandemic’s misunderstood metric
What the reproduction number can and can’t tell us about managing COVID-19.
Mathematicians and public-health experts watched through their fingers in May as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a series of charts to explain how the government would guide Britain out of coronavirus lockdown. Perhaps most prominent was a colourful dial with a needle hovering near a single digit: 1.
Source: Nature July 3, 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02009-w
watched through their fingers:
