"We should have taken the NZ approach of more intensive manual, devolved tracing."Absolutely: there are many (though, since austerity, not as many as there were) public health specialists who are not only trained and experienced at tracing but also know their own areas. Instead, we have the usual Tory trick of centralised outsourcing to their friends in useless companies like Serco and Crapita with a terrible record of failure, made worse by appointing Harding to lead it without any attempt at a proper recruitment process: the whole thing stinks of incompetence and corruption.And Sage says that, for all the £12 billion spent on this, it has only a marginal effect. It's a genuine, world-beating disgrace and the UK is the laughing stock of the world.
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