We worked with @A__W______O to try to force govt to tell us why it had lifted mitigations in schools.
We spent weeks & weeks amplifying voices of scientists such as @dgurdasani1 warning of danger of this & calling for child vax.
You’ll never guess what happened next..
This wholly preventable surge in teenage cases has now spread to adults. Meanwhile, our booster roll-out has been sluggish. The result is a lot of risk for a lot of people, according to report in today’s @FT
Only half the people eligible for a third dose have come forward. One scientist on JCVI suggests to @ft it’s because people are ‘taking their cues from politicians’, believe the pandemic is over & ‘feel psychologically safe’
NEW: Today, news broke that Immensa, subsidiary of Dante, may have supplied 43,000 incorrect test results between 8th September and 12th October at their clinic in Wolverhampton. THREAD: news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
As first reported in the @BylineTimes, Immensa were granted a £119m testing contract, without tender, when the firm had only been in existence for 4 months.
In total, Immensa won two Covid-related contracts, totalling over £169.4m:
NHS Test & Trace announced that they were suspending testing operations at the Immensa Wolverhampton clinic following the "vast majority" of results coming back as negative: gov.uk/government/new…
🚨BREAKING: Private Covid testing company Dante Labs appears to have been using lax data privacy laws in order to advertise its genomic sequencing services to customers. THREAD:
Hundreds of companies have been making money from the huge private Covid-19 travel testing industry created by the UK government. Among these, some companies also offer DNA sequencing which offers ‘insights into your health, life and risk for hereditary disease’.
Dante Labs owns Immensa Health, which has been awarded £169,435,000 in two contracts for PCR testing of Covid-19 samples by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC). contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b608182…
What we were able to reveal to today is that it's actually Cabinet Office policy to insist ministers & advisors set their message apps to automatically delete.
The government is literally shredding its records in real time.
We would have *literally no idea* of this secret govt policy if we hadn't brought this case.
The Cabinet Office is an FOI black hole. The only reason we now know about this message deletion policy is because it was forced to reveal it in the course of this legal claim
🔴The shocking findings of the Parliamentary #COVIDReport make it clear: scrutiny of the government could not be more important.
This is why TODAY @allthecitizens and @Foxglovelegal are in court to stop the use of disappearing messages apps in government.
In June 2021, a source at @DHSC told @BylineTimes that conversations between Public Health England and DHSC officials about whether or not patients should be
discharged from hospital into care homes without a negative test were taking place over WhatsApp. bit.ly/2YE9Ccl
🔥🔥The source added: “The entire COVID-19 response was being conducted over WhatsApp messages.”🔥🔥
🚨BREAKING: an investigation by @BylineBITE and @allthecitizens reveals 12 Covid-contract winning firms tied to the Conservative Party have increased their profits by £121.7 million over the last year, an increase of 57%. THREAD:
It’s now been 18 months since @BylineTimes and @TheCitizens began mapping the multi-million pound Covid-19 crony contract scandal, uncovering £1bn in taxpayer funds being awarded to companies owned by Conservative Party donors: bylinetimes.com/2021/03/29/map…
A further £2bn was awarded to associates of the Tory Party - ex-councillors, SPADs and advisors, or friends and relatives of politicians: bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/map…