The pandemic is being used as a screen to privatise, fragment, and weaken the NHS

Who could disagree with Roderick and colleagues’ clear and sensible proposals for moving contact tracing onto a footing that might go some way to making it effective in suppressing covid-19?1

Reading through the litany of disasters, with around 65 000 excess deaths so far and every likelihood of a rapid upturn in cases with the cavalier easing of lockdown, one can only weep …