Jeremy Hunt

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Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt

That delay meant test & trace only got going when infections were at several thousand a day, vastly higher numbers than the successful East Asia T&T systems had to cope with. So it was doomed to fail, & we ended up with 3 lockdowns. Just as across Eur & N.America, many more died. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2021

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Had we been humble enough to learn from the approach being taken in places like Taiwan and South Korea, with their experience of SARS and MERS, we could perhaps have avoided lockdowns altogether in the first year. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2021

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Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt

Another major failure was in ignoring the vulnerabilities of the social care system. Germany quarantined hospital discharges & Hong Kong sealed off its care homes early on. We prioritised emptying hospitals without enough thought to the risks in care homes. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 12, 2021