This article terrifyingly sums up the UK's response to #covid19UK.
"The British government did not listen. We had two months to get prepared for large-scale tests in the population, contact tracing and quarantine, to be like Guangzhou rather than Wuhan."
newstatesman.com/politics/stagg…
"The British government did not listen. We had two months to get prepared for large-scale tests in the population, contact tracing and quarantine, to be like Guangzhou rather than Wuhan."
newstatesman.com/politics/stagg…
"Yet the advisory committee, comprising clinical knights of the realm, virologists, mathematical modellers, and behavioural scientists led by a former director of David Cameron's Behavioural Nudge Unit, decided British science knew best."
"The post-mortem to dissect this strategic failure must wait. Was it advisory team group-think, led by clinician scientists with no experience of large scale epidemic control?"
"Was it British exceptionalism, dismissive of Chinese and Korean science and capability, and condescension towards WHO “bureaucrats”?"
