The government policy is in DISARRAY. Science and health advice has been wrong. We face a TSUNAMI of intensive care cases in London in the next few days. ICUs are almost full from anecdotal reports. Where are the hospital data? (1)
TESTS: Two months ago we knew we needed to find the virus to control it. Korea has been doing up to 20,000 tests per day in past month. We are at 4,000 per day. The government, on science advice, stopped testing except in hospitals a week ago. (2)
They say they’ll be at 25,000 tests per day IN A MONTH! Why so slow? Now they’ve done a volte face because they realise London will be overwhelmed, as in Wuhan and Italy. This was frankly obvious. Why did science/health advice not realise this? (3)
HEALTH WORKERS are NOT being protected. Intensive care staff are not being tested. They face huge risks. If they follow NHS QUARANTINE POLICY up to half of workers will be off work for 14 days. This must CHANGE. (4)
HEALTH WORKERS. We must a) arrange daily tests for asymptomatic ICU workers with quarantined household members at home to keep them at work, and b) requisition hotels for those who can stay away from families. (5)
We are told there are 2460 cases. The real figure could be over 100,000 cases. We have no test data to work on. The virus must be rampant in London. Why are we struggling for protective equipment, guidelines, ventilators and staff when we knew this would happen two months ago?(6)
We are way behind the curve. London will be like Italy/Wuhan within 7-10days, not four weeks as stated last Thursday. (7)
No evidence was presented to show voluntary social distancing is happening in London. So we need a LOCKDOWN and CURFEW now. The army and police will need to monitor it. We need thousands of volunteers trained to help security services and look after the vulnerable everywhere. (8)
It's a national crisis that could kill more people than the Blitz. We need a ‘wartime cabinet’ which is CROSS PARTY. And a NEW ADVISORY GROUP which brings logistics, public health, data, security, management, community mobilisation, civil society+regional leaders to the table (9)
We must not be afraid to seek advice from WHO, from Korea and China. (10)
