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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots.

I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by the Spectator

Data editor Michael Simmons and the editor of Spectator,

Freza Nelson.

For now, uh-uh.

Michael, because it's been another exciting day at COVID inquiry.

This week it's the turn of the scientists after the political aides, so it's been Sir Patrick

Valence and Sir Chris Whitty doing the double acts.

What are we learned today?

As you say James, today was the turn of Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer after Patrick Vance

yesterday.

And Whitties' evidence started off with this general theme that the inquiry has just pursued the whole time, which is did we lock

down quick enough to which the inquiry's answer is no.

And this came about today because when we had the Spatric Valence yesterday, had had mentioned that there was some disagreement

between Sir Patrick thinking that we needed to act,

you know, straight away and Chris Whitti saying that

as it like you were a doctor administering an operation you needed to explain kind of both sides, the downsides to the patients.

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