On the debacle of the UK's testing programme was very interesting. The much vaunted 25,000 contact tracers are being paid to sit at home. They have between them contacted (and the figures are in the public domain) some 15,000 people. That's less than one each. The remaining approx 100,000 people contacted were reached by the existing teams (numbering some 800) of public health officials. And this is all 'world beating' remember? The drive-in testing centres (run by that fine company Deloittes) are staffed entirely by low-paid, half-trained recruits with no medical experience. There are no doctors or nurses on site. Addendum And they interviewed this chap https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about-us/whos-who/chris-ham [Post edited 30 Jun 2020 10:16]
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