UK had enough data to lock down a week earlier, says government’s top scientist
Angela McLean also laid into Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out: ‘Can you not find another way to stimulate the economy?’
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Government’s flagship Covid mass testing scheme was ‘never going to work’
Jonathan Van-Tam, England’s former deputy chief medical officer, said Operation Moonshot ‘didn’t make any sense’
Jeremy Hunt’s benefit crackdown will worsen an already terrible system
The chancellor knows the anguish the welfare system causes Disabled people – and he knows his reforms won’t help
Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration
Chris Whitty says there was a ‘complete absence of plans’ to deal with Covid
The Covid inquiry heard that it wasn’t until 25 February 2020 that a plan was commissioned by ministers
NHS Palantir data deal puts patient trust at risk, warn MP and privacy groups
Patients won’t be able to opt out of sharing health records – despite MP warning that anonymising data is ‘impossible’
Jonathan Van-Tam was ‘seriously concerned’ by Covid threat in January 2020
Chris Whitty defends failure to act on deputy chief medical officer’s fears more than two months before lockdown