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17-07-2020, 05:21 PM
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Coronavirus: Johnson & Harding - Lie, Damned Lie and the Truth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53443161

Boris Johnson gave a coronavirus briefing on Friday, accompanied by Lady Harding, who is in charge of the NHS test and trace system for England.

Boris Johnson: "We have substantially increased the pipeline of personal protective equipment [PPE] for the NHS and social care constituting over 30 billion items of PPE over the course of the pandemic".

Lie:

Government figures show that only 2.3 billion items have actually been delivered to health and social care services in England, up to 12 July.

This includes 1.4 billion gloves (which are counted individually as opposed to in pairs).

It's not immediately clear where the 30 billion number comes from, but it could include future deliveries.

On 26 June, Lord Deighton who's leading the government's PPE efforts, said there were 28 billion items on order.

Adding that together with what has already been delivered would be just over 30 billion.
Dido Harding: "Every week, NHS test and trace gets better."

Damned Lie:

The proportion of people reached and asked to self-isolate in England has been falling since the scheme was launched six weeks ago.

The first set of figures published were for 28 May to 10 June when 90.6% of identified contacts were traced.

The most recent figure for 1 July to 8 July was 71.1%, barely changed from the previous week.
Boris Johnson: "We have massively increased the number of mechanical ventilators available in the NHS across the UK from 9,000 before the pandemic to nearly 30,000 now."

Truth:

There are now 29,800 mechanical ventilators available to the NHS, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.
Boris Johnson: "Publicly available data suggests we are now carrying out our tests more than anywhere else in Europe in total, and more than Germany, France, Italy and Spain per capita."

Truth:

Making international comparisons is difficult - some countries report the number of people tested, while others report the number of tests performed.

With these constraints in mind, and based on an average daily figure over the last seven days, the UK performed 1.67 tests per 1,000 people a day, while Germany carried out 0.86 tests per 1,000, Italy 0.7 and Spain 0.63. Data for France is not available.

The only two countries in Europe that carried out more tests per capita were Denmark (with 2.11 tests per 1,000 people) and Luxembourg (12.77 per 1,000).

It absolute terms, the UK is now carrying out more tests than other European countries. According to yesterday's figures from the Department of Health and Social Care, there were 202,912 daily tests made available in the UK while 152,063 tests were processed.
That's very good news about the testing, which is essential to verify the spread of the virus, and the ventilators, which may be needed later this year.

But PPE is still in very short supply and Dido Harding is still displaying ignorance or incompetence or both .....
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17-07-2020, 05:34 PM
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Re: Coronavirus: Johnson & Harding - Lie, Damned Lie and the Truth

The dots are not connecting, is it any wonder this news goes out on Friday.
 

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