"The UK offers companies system-wide collaborative working, a dynamic regulatory system, active life sciences & increasingly expanding access to rich longitudinal data from the NHS’s 65 million patients"
Any attempt to opt out of having your data shared with pharmaceutical companies won't apply "when there is an overridinng public interest...for example, to help manage contagious diseases like COVID
So if you were to try & opt out now, your choice would presumably be overridden.
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1. “Why were we faffing around with Excel when the scientists were telling us not to?" @skynewsniall
“The system was designed in conjunction with our scientists... at PHE & the JBC they're all scientists who have been involved in this." @RishiSunak
2. “Scientists” didn’t decide on using Excel. It’s a reporting/admin tool
The scientists would have told IT what info the database needed to hold. The IT team should have designed a database fit for that purpose rather than using an old version of Excel.
3. Sunak is also allowed to claim: “We are now testing 250,000 people a day”
That’s the figure for tests “processed” NOT people tested
When @MattHancock claimed 226,000 people were being tested on 21/9, the actual figure turned out to be around 82,000.
2/. The launch of a new decade-long national health strategy should be big news at anytime, but coming amidst the #COVID19 pandemic & with the potential to shift genome research to the heart of No.10's programme for govt, it is of particular significance.
3/. Genome research has HUGE potential social & cost benefits, not just in medicine
In the right hands & with the appropriate checks & balances it is very important but, when it is being rolled out by this govt in conjunction with companies like #Palantir, scrutiny is needed.
No distancing, no masks & this photo (via @nytimes) shows the #AmyConeyBarrett super-spreader event last week was INDOOR as well as outdoor, despite official claims
Attendees who later caught #COVID19:
Donald Trump
Melania Trump
Mike Lee
Thom Tillis
Kellyanne Conway
John Jenkins
The govt are acting as if they are beyond parliamentary scrutiny?
Q: Why are people are still unable to get tested & forced to drive hundreds of miles for a test? @TanDhesi
A: “I will not have this divisive language. I just won’t have it. @MattHancock
It is a deliberate & well-rehearsed strategy
If asked about any govt failings, ministers go on the offensive
This was @BorisJohnson ystdy, accusing @Keir_Starmer of "continually trying to snipe from the sidelines & undermine what we are trying to do.”
"And so by malice, stealth & brutishness a pattern is set. Less & less transparency. Less & less scrutiny. Less & less accountability. Until they are entirely unleashed to bundle aside the truth and speak only their truths."
A lesson from history. Emerson Warner writing in 1949.
Two days ago, #Trump mocked #Biden on masks: "I don't wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he's got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen."