1. Tight centralised control over testing held by Public Health *England* (not EU 🦄) may be problem with #CovidTesting
Dozens of machines lie dormant because of PHE’s strict adherence to its own standards regime.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/3…
Dozens of machines lie dormant because of PHE’s strict adherence to its own standards regime.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/3…
2. Professor Matthew Freeman of Oxford University’s Dunn School of Pathology:
“We have another 118 machines that can broadly do the same job, but they don’t appear to be part of PHE’s plans. They could be adapted easily.”
“We have another 118 machines that can broadly do the same job, but they don’t appear to be part of PHE’s plans. They could be adapted easily.”
3. Chemical reagents?
“You don’t have to get them from validated big pharma source. You ought to put out a call out to all British biotech companies saying ‘if you can make this stuff, we’ll buy it.’ They are fairly standard reagents.”
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“You don’t have to get them from validated big pharma source. You ought to put out a call out to all British biotech companies saying ‘if you can make this stuff, we’ll buy it.’ They are fairly standard reagents.”
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4. What chemical shortage? 👇
5. Govt’s scientific adviser
“I wasn’t aware of shortage until it was announced today. As far as I know there isn’t great shortage, so that’s new to me … As far as I’m aware it should be available. I suppose it must be true if it was announced in the press conference, but, erm”
“I wasn’t aware of shortage until it was announced today. As far as I know there isn’t great shortage, so that’s new to me … As far as I’m aware it should be available. I suppose it must be true if it was announced in the press conference, but, erm”
6. What about the failure to stockpile supplies?
Well that is one for the Public Inquiry
Well that is one for the Public Inquiry
