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Handy Cock Sacrifices Scapegoat in Bid to Save Political Career Matt Hancock has axed Public Health England! The Telegraph has the story. Public Health England (PHE) is to be scrapped and replaced by a new body specifically designed to protect the country against a pandemic by early next month, the Telegraph can disclose.Health Secretary Matt Hancock will this week announce a merger of the pandemic response work of PHE with NHS Test and Trace into a new body, called the National Institute for Health Protection, modelled on Germany's Robert Koch Institute.The Health Secretary, who returns to work after a UK holiday this week, wants to give PHE's replacement time to be set up before a feared surge in coronavirus cases this autumn. That last sentence is ominous. Does the Government really believe there's a second wave heading our way from across the English Channel? Apparently so. A senior minister told the Telegraph: "We want to bring together the science and the scale in one new body so we can do all we can to stop a second coronavirus spike this autumn."The National Institute for Health Protection’s goal will be simple: to ensure that Britain is one of the best equipped countries in the world to fight the pandemic." What is this "senior minister" talking about? The pandemic is as good ...
