UK Covid-19 Inquiry - Module 1: The Resilience and Preparedness of the United Kingdom

Chapter 3 The Assessment of Risk

This third chapter is essentially based on the amazing discovery of decades of blinkered and box-thinking. Influenza was the only game in town. It’s not worth repeating the crocodile tears that flow through the pages of evidence summarised in the chapter.

Only to point out that readers of TTE are crushingly familiar with the games of confusion between the F word and influenza and the content of our Riddles series. The F word is used to confuse people, especially politicians, and pretend that influenza vaccines can prevent F word cases. That’s how you help create a market:

The Story of Influenza Antivirals: Part 15

In 2009, Tom warned of the confusion between influenza-like illness and influenza. Using the F word, bundling up familiar signs and symptoms, fever, aches and pains, tiredness, cough, and runny nose due to numerous but uncountable microorganisms (a syndrome) and implying that it is due to a single agent (influenza). 

In 2006, in the BMJ, Tom highlighted the reasons for the gap between policy and evidence and the over-op…