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@JeremyFarrar

#Book: Spike - The Virus vs The People - #TheInsideStory | @JeremyFarrar @anjahuja | @ProfileBooks bit.ly/3CzqdwY #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #UK #UKGovernment #SAGE #RecommendedRead

1/ "On 18 February [2020], it was minuted [at the SAGE meeting] that Public Health England could perhaps cope with five coronavirus cases a week, generating 800 contacts that would need tracing.

2/ That could be scaled up to 50 cases a week and 8,000 contacts - but, if sustained transmission took off, contact tracing would become unviable.

3/ Today, it seems unbelievable that, thanks to a decade of austerity, the world’s fifth richest economy would be so woefully poised to respond and scale up fast to a public health emergency.

4/ The running down of public health in the decade before 2020 helped to turn what would have been a serious challenge into an ongoing tragedy." Spike. pp 92—93.

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