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You’d think they would have had all the answers right at the beginning - seeing as they are experts!!

Hindsight is 20/20 :-0

She is probably being lined up as a scapegoat if the situation gets really bad. Same goes for Matt Hancock.

Corrected.

To give her her correct title she is deputy chief medical officer.

The (deputy) chief medical officer for England, Jenny Harries.

Before lockdown she backed Johnson’s plan not to ban large gatherings, noting: “We’ve looked at what sorts of interventions might help manage this as we go forward, push the peak of the epidemic forward, and in general, those sorts of events and big gatherings are not seen to be something which is going to have a big effect. So we don’t want to disrupt people’s lives.”

She defended a fatal halt to tracking and tracing: “There comes a point in a pandemic where that is not an appropriate intervention.” She called the UK “an international exemplar in preparedness” and told doctors to have a “more adult” conversation about the lack of PPE.

She reiterated advice that it was “very unlikely” care homes would be infected.

She still appears regularly at the daily briefings.