COVID Inquiry | Professor Sir Chris Whitty gives evidence | Tuesday 21st November

WARNING: Evidence given to the hearing may contain language some may find offensive.

Professor Sir Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, gives evidence to the public inquiry.

Sir Chris became a household name alongside the chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, when the pair appeared alongside politicians at the daily COVID news conferences. Along with Sir Patrick, he helped steer the UK through the unprecedented crisis.

Sir Chris said during that module that the UK did "not have the ability to scale up" quickly to deal with the pandemic in areas such as testing, and that the non-pharmaceutical interventions - social measures such as quarantine, individual isolation, closing schools - were not new and some went back to the Middle Ages.

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