Greg Clark, chair of science select cttee, is a model of clarity, questioning Vallance & Whitty https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/8bbb6325-cbfe-4025-9be9-5f50bc220c73
Clark points out it's not really "optional" advice if advisers tell PM NHS will be overrun within weeks
Vallance says modelling future infections took regional tier measures into account
Chris Whitty: "I am confident tier 2 has had an effect & tier 3 has had a bigger effect"
Graham Stringer, Lab, asks Patrick Vallance if it was sensible or fair to put up a graph modelling 4,000 deaths a day
Vallance defends need to understand the reasonable worst-case scenario, but 4k a day not the consensus model
"It's not real, it's a model, but we need to understand.. what may be coming.. an illustration of what may happen": Vallance
Vallance side-eye to other parts of govt, saying "other advice [on economic impact] is less visible" (than Sage advice on health impact)
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