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Gift article:
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-wrecked-britain-man-left-deeper-scars-4326071?utm_campaign=PNIdDdAZYs4fk4i&ito=gifted_article&data-target=gifted_article&utm_source=XJPLeh5koSHChZEU
Boris Johnson wrecked Britain. But this man left even deeper scars
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-johnson-wrecked-britain-man-left-deeper-scars-4326071
#Covid19
#LockdownPolicy
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The Guardian view on meningitis in Kent: we must not take public health systems for granted | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/20/the-guardian-view-on-meningitis-in-kent-we-must-not-take-public-health-systems-for-granted #Meningitis #Health #Society #Universities #Coronavirus #Nhs #InfectiousDiseases #Science #ChrisWhitty #WesStreeting #Labour #UkNews
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Weight-loss drugs alone will not solve UK’s obesity crisis, says Chris Whitty https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/06/weight-loss-drugs-alone-not-solve-uk-obesity-crisis-chris-whitty #WeightlossDrugs #ChrisWhitty #Obesity #UkNews #Society #Science #HealthPolicy #Health #PharmaceuticalsIndustry
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Preventing infections in older people is hit and miss, says England’s chief medic https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/04/preventing-managing-infections-older-people-chris-whitty #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Olderpeople #ChrisWhitty #Hospitals #Society #England #Health #UKnews
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What has the UK Covid inquiry learned so far about vaccines and treatments? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/what-has-the-uk-covid-inquiry-learned-so-far-about-vaccines-and-treatments #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Covidinquiry #Healthpolicy #ChrisWhitty #Science #Society #Health #UKnews
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Britain will elect a Trump next election and it will be thanks to men like this.
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Covid denier who posted violent threats against Chris Whitty jailed for five years https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/11/covid-denier-patrick-ruane-jailed-violent-threats-against-chris-whitty #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Infectiousdiseases #Coronavirus #ChrisWhitty #Society #Science #London #UKnews #Health #Law
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#PublicHealth experts like #ChrisWhitty seem to think that, in the absence of random-assignment double-blind studies, ignoring basic physics and engineering is an ok way to save money.
They also ignored many decades of research showing that many respiratory infections are #Airborne.
So we arrived at the start of Covid and wiped down surfaces and washed hands instead of wearing masks to filter the virus out from the air we breathed.
Knighthoods?
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Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/future-pandemic-as-big-as-covid-is-inevitable-says-whitty #Infectiousdiseases #Covidinquiry #ChrisWhitty #Coronavirus #Science #Society #UKnews #Health #NHS
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'Lack of [#NHSEngland] #ICUcapacity was ‘political choice’, #ChrisWhitty tells #CovidInquiry – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer #England] tells #Covid19 inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries'
'The main thing we could do at the beginning, before we understood it slightly better, was to reduce the amount of Covid. If you don’t get Covid, you don’t get #LongCovid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/26/uk-politics-labour-keir-starmer-un-general-assembly-speech
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'Lack of [#NHSEngland] #ICUcapacity was ‘political choice’, #ChrisWhitty tells #CovidInquiry – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer #England] tells #Covid19 inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries'
'The main thing we could do at the beginning, before we understood it slightly better, was to reduce the amount of Covid. If you don’t get Covid, you don’t get #LongCovid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/26/uk-politics-labour-keir-starmer-un-general-assembly-speech
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'Lack of [#NHSEngland] #ICUcapacity was ‘political choice’, #ChrisWhitty tells #CovidInquiry – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer #England] tells #Covid19 inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries'
'The main thing we could do at the beginning, before we understood it slightly better, was to reduce the amount of Covid. If you don’t get Covid, you don’t get #LongCovid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/26/uk-politics-labour-keir-starmer-un-general-assembly-speech
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“Mr Lipwig, there’s a lady in the hall to see you and we’ve thanked her for not smoking three times and she’s still doing it!”
Terry Pratchett; Making Money
#Discworld #ChrisWhitty #SmokingBanBill 🚬💨☠️ -
Amid the drama of the #CovidInquiry, #ChrisWhitty quietly pointed to an important truth. Will anyone listen?
#England’s #ChiefMedicalOfficer owned up to experts’ ignorance of psychology. If only others had been so candid in admitting their errors
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/24/covid-inquiry-chris-whitty-ignorance-psychology
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#Covid 19 Inquiry latest:
Chris Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.
#NHS #ukcovid19inquiry #ChrisWhitty #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #HerdImmunity #Health #UKpolitics
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#Covid 19 Inquiry latest:
Chris Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.
#NHS #ukcovid19inquiry #ChrisWhitty #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #HerdImmunity #Health #UKpolitics
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#Covid 19 Inquiry latest:
Chris Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.
#NHS #ukcovid19inquiry #ChrisWhitty #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #HerdImmunity #Health #UKpolitics
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#Covid 19 Inquiry latest:
Chris Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.
#NHS #ukcovid19inquiry #ChrisWhitty #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #HerdImmunity #Health #UKpolitics
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#Covid 19 Inquiry latest:
Chris Whitty told ministers: Stop discussing herd immunity – you don’t understand it
England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty also revealed his contempt for the so-called Great Barrington Declaration.
#NHS #ukcovid19inquiry #ChrisWhitty #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #HerdImmunity #Health #UKpolitics
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"#HerdImmunity was never [UK] government #policy during #COVID19 and it was a major #CommunicationsFailure that some people early in the #pandemic believed it was, Prof Sir #ChrisWhitty told the #CovidInquiry."
It wasn't policy, but uncontrolled infection & death was an outcome, especially for older people.
Or, as Whitty says, "It was clearly a ridiculous goal of policy, and a dangerous one, and lots of what was said could have led to considerable #confusion, and did."
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There was a “complete absence of plans” to deal with Covid in the UK, chief medical officer Chris Whitty has said.
Speaking to the Covid inquiry today, Whitty said the government did not “have a plan that was going to be useful from a prevention or management point of view,” and that his view was that as a country we were “thin on the ground for plans”.
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Deputy chief Medical Officer, Jonathan Van-Tam was ‘seriously concerned’ by Covid threat in January 2020.
Chris Whitty defends failure to act on officer’s fears more than two months before lockdown.
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CW: Covid Inquiry
"With the benefit of hindsight"????
Whitty does not come out of this smelling of roses. Plenty of scientists were screaming from the rooftops at the time that the first lockdown was too late.
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Emails reveal Chris Whitty’s response to Boris Johnson critics during #covid
Whitty told the editor of The Lancet medical journal: “I basically don’t think you understand what we are doing”
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#ChrisWhitty: UK should have focused more on stopping #Covid19-type pandemic
#England’s ChiefMedicalOfficer tells #CovidInquiry focus was more on dealing with consequences of #pandemic
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#ChrisWhitty says threats to expert advisers during #Covid19 could undermine future #DisasterPlanning – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer for #England says abuse and threats levelled at experts during Covid was ‘extremely concerning
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jun/22/james-cleverly-rishi-sunak-inflation-interest-rates-mortgages-covid-inquiry-uk-politics-live -
Disappointing that on the same day #ChrisWhitty's report declares #airpollution as a public health emergency #MichaelGove approves the first coal mine for 30 years.
A stark contrast between the CMO’s calls to act and the actions of our government. -
Important comments from Chris Whitty in his annual report on air pollution.
🚗 People idling petrol/diesel engines are "incredibly antisocial".
⚡ Electric vehicles still cause particulate pollution.
🚶♀️🚲 More walking and cycling is important and safer cycle lanes will "encourage" take-up.
🔥 "Eco" wood burners cause 450x more air pollution than gas central heating.
#AirPollution #ChrisWhitty #ElectricVehicle #Walking #Cycling #ActiveTravel #WoodBurner #Pollution
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Im Vereinigten Königreich steigt die Zahl der Coronavirus-Neuinfektionen mit besorgniserregender Geschwindigkeit an. Gesundheitsexperten schlagen nun Alarm und die Regierung verschärft ihre offizielle Warnstufe.
Großbritannien hebt Corona-Alarmstufe an | DW | 21.09.2020
#Großbritannien #Coronavirus #Covid-19 #Experten #Neuinfektionen #Nordirland #ChrisWhitty #SirPatrickVallance