Searingly honest and brutal from C-19 survivor @DMinghella.
'I had no idea. No symptoms. But I may have killed people.'
'Hospitals knew. They did something. The govt must also have known. They did nothing.'
minghella.com/eleven-days-in…
@BBCNewsnight, 13 March: Prof Graham Medley, pandemic influenza modeler, govt adviser, member of SAGE:
"The biggest danger is if people don't change their behaviour."
Lockdown was not implemented for another 11 days.
*Note*
This interview went out on the last day of the Cheltenham Festival, and a day after Liverpool hosted 3000 plus, Atletico Madrid fans at Anfield.
"People being infected today will die next month"
@DMinghella's searing piece now in the @NewStatesman:
'I had no idea. No symptoms. But I may have killed people.'
'Hospitals knew. They did something. The govt must also have known. They did nothing.'
newstatesman.com/2020/04/eleven…
US: 2 March, 11 Deaths.
17 April, 37,175 Deaths
@brittajewell @NP_Jewell
"Whatever the final death toll the cost of waiting will be enormous."
thehill.com/changing-ameri…