Quote Originally Posted by forwardmagpie View Post
Driller, not good at this but this maybe the interview 🤷*♂️

https://youtu.be/jzvOwF48z4s
I thought it was a bit of a softball interview to be honest.

These are the questions I would've asked him:

The CMO says we will reach Italian numbers of cases in 4 weeks, but we will see a different response to the Italian one (ie no lockdown). Seeing as Italy had to shut the country down to protect the health system, and the UK has half the Italian number of intensive care beds per capita, is that feasible?

As I understand it we don't yet know for sure whether people who have been infected can be reinfected, or how quickly the virus mutates. Does this make the 'herd immunity' plan risky?

The number of tests carried out per capita in the UK is relatively low, and the CMO estimates the true number of case to be 5-10 thousand. Given that these cases will now be multiplying exponentially, and given that the plan is to try manage the number of in patients at a constant level just below NHS capacity, won't the lack of data (the fact that we don't know exactly how many cases we have and where), make the planning exceptionally difficult?

There is already a body of evidence to suggest that early action (as in Singapore, Hong kong etc) such as social distancing and obligatory mask wearing negates the need for a lockdown later on. Would this have been preferable?