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Confusion grows over huge order of NHS gowns from Turkey

Turkish officials & the company at the centre of the decision by the NHS to impound hundreds of thousands of protective gowns have claimed they are yet to receive a demand for a refund from the NHS
theguardian.com/world/2020/may…
Despite Brandon Lewis saying that he understood they weren’t fit for purpose it seems that 2.4k gowns checked failed safety tests, 4,500 passed as fit - around 1% of the original order.

Defective test sets
Defective ventilators
Defective gowns
Defective tracing app.

Theme there
Yes. “This illustrates the danger if making promises on a wing and a prayer.”
In this respect Cummings was right (Spectator today from Cummings Blog) : Ministers running from one cock up to the next often caused by trying to dodge the blame for the first.
“An effective planning horizon of No 10 of ten days at best (often less than 72 hours)....”
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‘Finally, a virus got me.’ Scientist who fought Ebola & HIV reflects on facing death from CV19

Without a CV19 vaccine, “we will never be able to live normally again
The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/f…
“That means producing billions of doses of it, which, in itself, is a huge challenge in terms of manufacturing logistics. And despite the efforts, it is still not even certain that developing a COVID-19 vaccine is possible.”

It happens to those that fight the disease too.
Who would not fear being put on a ventilator?

But here even those involved in researching pandemics cannot control their own care.

Knowing about a third of admitted patients die can’t help.

Much the same as Ebola.

He was discharged. But felt weak. He had tested negative.
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'Harvesting' is a terrible word – but it's what has happened in Britain's care homes

Generally, it is viewed as a tragic, unfortunate, but largely unpreventable consequence of natural events. It carries with it connotations of an acceptable loss of life.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
But the word also has darker connotations: those of sacrifice, reaping, culling...

While it may appear in textbooks of epidemiology, it doesn’t occur in national influenza strategic plans or national discourse. The concept of harvesting is restricted to epidemiological circles.
But what if politicians promote the notion of harvesting (while declining to use the term) where it is not a “natural” consequence of events but a direct consequence of government policy? What if the medical and nursing world do not accept harvesting in these circumstances?
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There are plenty of interesting snippets in this article not least about the Corbyn Shadow Cabinet meetings and the continuing delusions from that camp.

Keir Starmer: ‘The government has been slow in nearly all of the major decisions’ ft.com/content/359828…
Falconer: Under Corbyn meetings would be chaotic with people wandering in and out and showboating about pet topics.

Why am I not surprised?

Starmer “is bewildered by low standards” “all the meetings that used to be a shambles are now being run properly”
All shadow ministers have been told to arrive promptly, talk clearly,not be repetitive. The Corbyn cabinet was full of people intervening on topics that had fuck all to do with the topic they were talking about & high levels of abuse obsequiousness. That doesn’t happen any more
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