hunt for the first of a series i six months. let me turn to jeremy hunt for the first of a series of i hunt for the first of a series of questions. thank you, this inquiry is about lessons learned for the future. ijust want is about lessons learned for the future. i just want to look is about lessons learned for the future. ijust want to look in a bit of detail about the scientific advice you received at the early stages of the pandemic. test and trace is a very established key plank of our response now. but the original four point plan that was announced on the 13th of february last year contain, delay, research, mitigate, said community testing should be stopped after stage one, that s what happened three weeks later on march the 9th. in south korea and thailand, we now know, test and trace was used right the way through the pandemic and as it progressed they scaled up testing rather than scaling it down so my first question is when was the first time that you are secretary of state
style test and trace? do the modelling for south korean style test and trace? yes, and i had calls with south style test and trace? yes, and i had calls with south korean style test and trace? yes, and i had calls with south korean ministers i style test and trace? yes, and i had j calls with south korean ministers to understand what they were doing. so why did that modelling not happen until april and why were there no discussions until may? it was a big emergency. discussions until may? it was a big emergency- emergency. essentially because of lack of capacity- emergency. essentially because of lack of capacity. i m emergency. essentially because of lack of capacity. i m talking - emergency. essentially because of lack of capacity. i m talking aboutl lack of capacity. i m talking about discussions lack of capacity. i m talking about discussions in lack of capacity. i m talking about discussions in sage. lack of capacity. i m talking about discussions in sage. in lac
macro at that point. the challenge though, was, the scale of the capacity. and i had driven that as hard as i could within phe with my indirect, therefore hands on the levers. then in the middle of march we had a meeting in downing street at which we had an array of test providers, we had the phe team who were doing that, the testing, and i took personal charge of the testing. i know you wanted to expand capacity, i mjust i know you wanted to expand capacity, i m just trying to understand the strategy. you confirmed you were not offered south korean style test and trace as an option. figs korean style test and trace as an 0 tion. , . korean style test and trace as an otion. , ., .,, korean style test and trace as an otion. a . .,, a, korean style test and trace as an otion. a . , option. as far as i can remember. did ou option. as far as i can remember. did you ever option. as far as i can remember. did you ever ask option. as far as i can remember. did you ever ask sage optio
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it s like watching paint dry. but i have to agree with you. trying to get 11 million people to bust down the door is not going to happen. why don t we just be nazi germany. but if you build a path to set zen ship. . even funding to go to school. i think that donald trump has done an excellent job. he has been the only candidate that s really, really out spoken chlts. that s what he was saying. there s a really important generational divide that looks towards the general election because young voters decided that in 2012, they re going to do it again in 20167. 16. they have the style test last night on this issue.