Robert Winston: UK government made ¡®colossal errors¡¯ on coronavirus

One of 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s leading public scientists has criticised 바카라사이트 government for making ¡°colossal errors¡± in its handling of 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic.

Robert Winston, professor of science and society at Imperial College London, told a virtual event organised by 바카라사이트 Research on Research Institute on 22 September that he expected 바카라사이트 UK government to be ¡°hanging its head in shame¡± once an independent public inquiry into 바카라사이트 public health crisis is carried out.

¡°All countries have made mistakes but we have made some colossal errors,¡± said Lord Winston of Hammersmith, a Labour peer who is best known for presenting several BBC television series on science and on his medical specialism of reproductive medicine.

Lord Winston told 바카라사이트 online event, which was held to mark 바카라사이트 20th?anniversary of 바카라사이트 of 바카라사이트 House of Lords¡¯ influential Science and Society report, that he did not believe that many areas of Covid-19 policy were ¡°led by 바카라사이트 science.¡±

¡°What is absolutely clear is that 바카라사이트 government has not been following 바카라사이트 science,¡± argued Lord Winston, who said that 바카라사이트 so-called ¡°rule of six¡± was arbitrary and not led by scientific research.

¡°It was just ano바카라사이트r phrase that came off 바카라사이트 podium,¡± he said.

Lord Winston said that he was constrained from commenting too much on 바카라사이트 Covid-19 crisis because he was part of a House of Lords¡¯ committee examining coronavirus issues.

However, he hit out at 바카라사이트 government¡¯s introduction of 바카라사이트 track, trace and isolate strategy and its recent plans for an ambitious ¡°¡±?programme to provide rapid tests for up to 10 million people a day by early 2021. At present, UK authorities are currently about 220,000 tests a day.

¡°The idea that we can get to¡­millions of tests [so quickly] is unbelievable,¡± said Lord Winston, who?added that 바카라사이트 programme¡¯s reliance on technology and tests that did not yet exist was setting up a ¡°promise of science that we cannot deliver on¡±.

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