Re:What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
by rand49an on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:15PM
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The UK test and trace program cost £37 billion, which was handed solely over to a company that has a long history of delivering projects poorly. By all good measures it wasn't effective in tracking COVID or preventing cases. In my opinion the government were rightly attacked over this issue.
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Re:What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
by makomk on Friday October 29, 2021 @10:13AM
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See, this is what I mean about there being a lot of misinformation out there. That £37 billion wasn't handed solely over to any one company - political opponents of the current government kept on falsely claiming that it was all given to Serco, but in reality only a small fraction of the Test and Trace spending went to them: https://fullfact.org/health/test-trace-march-2021/ (I think most of the money that went to Serco was ultimately spent on employing the numerous call center staff required to actually scale up manual contact tracing too.)