Not even that key a drug, now evidence it actually saves lives. All they can say is it reduces the length of recovery on people who will recover anyway.
If there is an ebola issue now that will be much, much, much worse
So the great new deal that is going to "save" the UK economy is about 5bn in already announced capital spending?
FFS places like Germany are spending 40bn in fresh unannouced spending.
Reading the report I am not getting why they would use the Furlough scheme. They were open during "lockdown" but have now had to close due to the amount of staff testing positive for covid-19.
If correct it appears that the outbreak in Leicester is even more localised than the reports are saying.
But the reasoning given by hancock was a 135 per 100k case could and 6 to 10 hospital admissions a day. From listening to Peter Soulsby the mayor he doesn't seem aware of any other data.
Looking at the available data there are places showing an larger increase in pillar 1 positive cases and hospital admissions are 6 to 10 a day which isn't that bad.
The Mayor of Leicester thinks they didn't need to do this but they want to be seen to be tough,