Intensive care doctor Ben calls out the ‘meaningless’ measures they took in hospitals during the early days of Covid as he tells ShelaghFogarty he ‘couldn’t do it again’.
Under that policy, the "results become meaningless" Ben argued, and those limited tests we did have were wasted.
According to the messages, Sir Whitty told Matt Hancock in April 2020 that all those "going into care homes" should be tested. Mr Hancock has flatly denied the accusations that he avoided clinical advice on the grounds that he was told at the time that there were not enough tests to include Whitty's measures in the action plan.
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