Re: What Matt Hancock can get away with - example
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He is defending the NHS - they should have been doing the tests but they weren't. The safest place for patients was outside of hospitals.
Agreed. It was also a case of simple arithmetic. At the beginning, there were 25k patients involved but only 2k tests/day available. Surely everyone can see that 23,000 people would have to go without a test - and that's just the first day. On the 2nd day a further 23k patients would not be tested bringing the total up to 46,000, and so on.
It was only when the number of testing centres were ramped up, did the number of available tests become available and THAT was really outside of the NHS and Hancock's bailey-wick. Many of the testing centres that sprung up were privately operated laboratories.