Local health teams are outperforming the NHS Covid contact system, but as cases rise they want a rethink
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Michael SavageTHREAD on my alarming week looking at tracing.
In public, local leaders continue to push for a bigger role.
In private, hot anger over the national tracing system. An “intergalactic catastrophe... the very worst system I've ever seen in my life”
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