PHE “whistle-blower confirmed that, in March 2020, PHE’s internal advice from clinical staff was to ensure that any patients newly discharged into care homes had to be tested for COVID-19.”...
“Public Health England’s original advice was that people shouldn’t be released from homes and hospitals without being tested to ensure they are not carrying the disease,” they said.”
“That initial advice was signed-off by two PHE officials – Dr Eamonn O’Moore, director for health and justice; and Dr Julia Verne, head of clinical epidemiology – and was the case up to the period “just before the lockdown”, the source revealed.”
Very very precise.
And guess who applied the pressure.... She might come over as being ever so ever so....but she is without honesty and without decency by this account
"Health Minister Helen Whately..appointed to the post in Feb 2020 – “leaned on PHE” to alter the advice being published.
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WHISTLEBLOWER Matt Hancock ‘Suppressing’ COVID Data from Gov Depts
🔥🔥🔥 DHSC” basically responded by saying: let’s release some information, but keep it vague and release it alongside everything else to make the situation look not as bad as it is.” bylinetimes.com/2021/06/10/mat…
NB “...To make the situation not look as bad as it is”‼️
Asked about Hancock’s role in this decision, the source said: “That decision came from him personally.”
There’s more....
Can’t see Hancock hanging on much longer if this is true . ( Frantic Gov denials)
He’s not just trying to gaslight the public but also said to be limiting scientific data including re cases, case rates, hospitalisations, capacity coming from PHE going to other Government Departments.
Even to the Cabinet Office. Sniffs air. Gove sticking the knife in?
In 2010 when she stood for election in Hastings she was surprised how many turned up for an event about giving a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty- swamped- compared to ones where she expected high engagement :- Local hospital - 4 people; local schools- 3 people
Early warning
As for the the campaign.
Had Labour had a different leader other than Corbyn how much better the campaign would have been.
This 🧵 from @Dr_D_Robertson is a really good explanation about how to interpret the relationship between cases and hospitalisation, preferably early on.
Worth linking it to @AdamJKucharski 🧵 today on how long cases could continue to rise, and how they, combined with the holes in our vaccination programme and immunity defences can drive hospitalisations.
Also this from Chile that has an advanced vaccination programme yet still COVID (more ALPHA and P1 than DELTA variant to date) has found large holes in its immunity defences
For those curious about the DELTA AY.1 sub-variant. This is the so called Nepal variant which Hancock thought we did not have. Small numbers but we have 35 (+11 other possibles). First identified here on 26 April.
No vaccine specific performance data yet re number of infections, hospitalisations, ICUs & deaths.
May be complicated due to cohorts given Pfizer v AZ
The number of Delta variant cases across the UK has increased by 70% – from 12,341 last week to 42,323 this week
@CovidCourier I’m afraid we seem to have reverted to blanked out tweets from you. Too sensitive. No idea why this happens in tweets from you and a couple of others.