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14 Oct, 11 tweets, 4 min read

⚠️Failure to challenge poor scientific advice during the pandemic cost thousands of lives

This is what was concluded by the first major report into the Government's Covid-19 response
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❓How much money did NHS Track and Trace ask for, on the grounds it could prevent a second lockdown?
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💰 £37 billion

Test and Trace was unable to deliver on its promise, despite the huge amount of money
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❓The UK initially focused on only shutting its borders to China, Iran, South Korea and Italy, but what percentage of first wave cases came from France?
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🦠29%

A study by Imperial College also found that 33% of cases during the first wave came from Spain
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❓By mid March 2020 Germany was testing 50,000 people a day - how many was the UK testing at the same point?
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🧪500

In the crucial period between January 25 and March 11, 2020, just 27,476 tests were carried out
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❓In England alone, how many lives is the vaccine programme estimated to have saved?
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💉112,000

It also protected nearly 50 million people in the UK
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MPs said of the UK's vaccination programme: "Globally it is one of the most stunning achievements in history."

"Millions of lives will ultimately be saved as a result of the global vaccine effort, of which the UK has played a leading part"

Here's where the report says we went wrong - and who is it blame⬇️
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