Blinded by Corona

A gripping view of our fight against corona Professor Ashton has deep practical understanding of the science of public health - a discipline invented in Britain - as a former Director of Public Health. In this jargon-free fly-on-the-wall tale he sets the UK government's measures to deal with COVID-19 from January against two centuries of home-grown knowledge. How do the government's experts and the UK's reliance on web-based solutions such as Test&Trace measure up against the past, for example the 2008 Swine 'Flu epidemic?

John Ashton is Professor at the University of Liverpool and University London, School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Advisor to Bahrain's COVID-19 Task Force. He was a Regional Director of Public Health, President of the Faculty of Public Health, set up the Liverpool Health Observatory and was a founder of the World Health Organization Healthy Cities. Ashton trained as a doctor at the University of Newcastle Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. As a spectator he triaged the dying and wounded at the Hillsborough Disaster and from the first day spoke out when the fans were blamed, providing his eyewitness account as doctor.