Former top Treasury mandarin says test & trace “most wasteful and inept” public spending in history - and links acceptance of that in Govt to Bank of England effectively printing the money to fund it...
https://twitter.com/nickmacpherson2/status/1369554007472082944
Can occasionally be forgotten that an adjustment made for the output of the test and trace system notably boosted Q4 GDP figure ... 
Full report here... from cross party @CommonsPAC
key charge: didn’t achieve aim, that justified £37bn cost, of preventing further lockdowns..
& initially centralising this mistaken when local health officials have expertise here, like in Germany
committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…
key charge: didn’t achieve aim, that justified £37bn cost, of preventing further lockdowns..
& initially centralising this mistaken when local health officials have expertise here, like in Germany
committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…
Case for defence here: testing capacity went from 100k to 800k a day, 2.5m contacts tested positive, 4.5m associated contacts told to isolate...
More generally, Govt tried a load of expensive risky VC-style experiments - vaccines clearly paid off, test & trace not so much.
More generally, Govt tried a load of expensive risky VC-style experiments - vaccines clearly paid off, test & trace not so much.
Big strategic question that needs answering - centralising procurement/data gathering/then applying machine learning was conscious strategy in early pandemic - applied to PPE, ventilators, test-trace etc. Did it help? Did it distract from tried and tested local health efforts?
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