Leaked WhatsApp messages reveal how UK Health Secretary hoped to shock public into complying with ever-changing lockdown rules. Here is a video of UK Health Secretary at the time Matt Hancock deploying "new variant" a few days after scheming to "frighten the pants of everyone" to…
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Matt Hancock: what do the leaked WhatsApp messages reveal?
Matt Hancock is facing a series of claims based on a leaked cache of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages that provide an insight into the way the UK government operated at the height of the pandemic. They include the suggestion that, while health secretary, he rejected advice from England’s chief …
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/matt-hancock-what-do-leaked-whatsapp-messages-reveal-covid
https://apnews.com/article/uk-covid-deaths-hancock-whatsapp-leak-2d1a5c19d337f18fb02861ae341dde64
https://ksusentinel.com/2023/03/01/matt-hancock-what-do-the-leaked-whatsapp-messages-reveal/
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/matt-hancock-rejected-covid-testing-advice-leaked-messages-suggest
https://flipboard.com/article/the-leaked-whatsapp-messages-that-expose-how-britain-s-elderly-were-failed-on-co/f-91c71b7878%2Fco.uk
What is the key claim?
Whitty told Hancock in April 2020 there should be testing for “all going into care homes”, according to the messages.
On 14 April 2020, Hancock told aides Whitty had conducted an “evidence review” and recommended “testing of all going into care homes, and segregation whilst awaiting result”.
Hancock said the advice represented a “good positive step” and that “we must put into the doc”, to which an aide responded that he had sent the request “to action”.
The message came a day before the publication of Covid-19: Our Action Plan for Adult Social Care, a government document outlining plans to keep the care sector functioning during the pandemic.
But the exchanges from 14 April suggest Hancock ultimately rejected the guidance, telling an aide the move just “muddies the waters”, and introduced mandatory testing only for those coming from hospitals rather than the community.
Hancock said he would rather “leave out” a commitment to test everyone entering care homes from the community and “just commit to test & isolate ALL going into care from hospital”.
“I do not think the community commitment adds anything and it muddies the waters,” he said.
How has Hancock responded?
The claim he rejected clinical advice on care home testing was “flat wrong”, a spokesperson said, because Hancock was told it was “not currently possible” to carry out the tests.
The spokesperson said the U-turn followed an operational meeting in which Hancock was advised it
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https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/01/isabel-oakeshott-the-journalist-who-turned-over-matt-hancock
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/t/tf-tj/the-lockdown-files-team/
