COVID-19 makes fools of us all. Politicians, scientists, civil servants and of course journalists. Even Dominic Cummings, who told MPs in May that he “bitterly regretted” his own mistakes and apologised tearfully to the families of “those who died needlessly as a result. Somehow he forgot to mention this in the latest stop in his “revenge tour”, as Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links put it yesterday. This tenacious little virus (and no, I don’t mean Mr Cummings) always seems to be one step ahead of us. In the middle of summer, when contagions aren’t supposed to happen, it somehow delivers a pandemic wave higher than last winter. We are now talking not just about 50,000 cases a day but 200,000 cases a day.
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Professor Leitch made the claims at the Scottish Government s daily COVID-19 briefing on February 26 with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman.
Mr Leitch was responding to comments made by Professor Mark Woolhouse who said Scotland did not come close to eliminating COVID last summer as had been claimed by the Scottish Government.
The Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh had said earlier this month: “Scotland was not close to elimination at any stage during this epidemic.”
Responding to Professor Woolhouse, Mr Leitch added: “We didn t eliminate the virus but we maximally suppressed it. We had a month with nobody dying of COVID, three months after a lockdown.
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