and new columnist at the times, and for the first half of our programme, professor peter hotez is with us, expert in molecular virology and microbiology at the baylor college of medicine. what we ve known for some time about the uk s response to the covid pandemic is that the protective ring the government claimed to have thrown around care homes wasn t very protective at all. between march 2020 and april 2021, some 39,000 people died in care homes from covid. the public inquiry, which is still to begin, will examine whether more could have been done. in the interim, some of the evidence the panel will consider is now being tested in the court of public opinion. the reporter isabelle 0akshott, who co authored a book with matt hancock, has now shared with the telegraph 100,000 whatsapp messages which the former health secretary had shared with government officials. the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month. in one message, from april 14th 2020, mr hancock te
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and new columnist at the times, and for the first half of our programme, professor peter hotez is with us, expert in molecular virology and microbiology at the baylor college of medicine. what we ve known for some time about the uk s response to the covid pandemic is that the protective ring the government claimed to have thrown around care homes wasn t very protective at all. between march 2020 and april 2021, some 39,000 people died in care homes from covid. the public inquiry, which is still to begin, will examine whether more could have been done. in the interim, some of the evidence the panel will consider is now being tested in the court of public opinion. the reporter isabelle 0akshott, who co authored a book with matt hancock, has now shared with the telegraph 100,000 whatsapp messages which the former
that has been given today by the teleu-rah? , ., ., telegraph? i should say i ve not been involved telegraph? i should say i ve not been involved at telegraph? i should say i ve not been involved at all telegraph? i should say i ve not been involved at all on - telegraph? i should say i ve not been involved at all on the - telegraph? i should say i ve not| been involved at all on the story and have not been involved in reading or investigating the whatsapp messages. i think that the story that the telegraph road, which is that over the course of the day, matt hancock changed his mind or change his position, and what the test were going to be used for, is clearly true. what we don t know is exactly why the change of mind, and in fact the telegraph story says, we don t know, there seems to have been a change of mind. it does not claim that it knows the reason for that. the dispute is whether, essentially, matt hancock changed his mind for some random reason that we don t know abou
going to test people and how many actual tests we had. the reality was there was a very, very limited number of those tests. now, people who were coming out of hospitals had the highest rates of transmission. they were the people who had the highest risk of having the disease because there was a lot of nosocomial infection from other patients within the hospitals. so it was sensible and right to prioritise those coming into social care first. and we were then going to move on to covering absolutely everyone, which is what we went on to do. let s speak now to paul hunter, professor in medicine let s bring injuliet. formerly placed at the telegraph, so well placed to comment on this story. one problem is we do not have all the whatsapp messages, but even if we were, we could not know the whole picture of the subsequent government meetings and what decisions were taken, so how accurate and fair is the account that has been given today by the telegraph? i