I just spoke to Warren East, chief executive of Rolls-Royce, one of the UK’s most advanced engineering companies. And he says government has not contacted him yet to discuss whether his or his suppliers’ facilities can be repurposed to make the many thousands of respirators...
that @MattHancock confirmed today the NHS badly needs to keep alive #COVIDー19 sufferers with acute symptoms. And he does not know how hard it would be to re-engineer production lines to make the relevant components speedily. Hancock confirmed the government will pay whatever...
it takes in a kind of wartime mobilisation. But we are some way from knowing what is practically possible in the few weeks before the epidemic is expected to reach very challenging proportions.
