It tells us that we’ve got at least 100,000 cases at the moment of people who are infected. And this is from our data, although the NHS would underestimate that because they’re not counting all the symptoms …
At the moment, people are being told to go back to work if they’re a care worker, and they’ve got something like loss of smell or taste or severe muscle pains or fatigue – things that we know and we’ve shown are related to being swabbed positive.
This country is missing the ball in underestimated cases but also putting people at risk, and continuing the epidemic.
So we really do need to tell Public Health England to get in line with the rest of the world, and make people more aware.
There’s no point telling people to be alert if they don’t know the symptoms.