faculty of public health professor john ashton who joins me now via skype from dent in the yorkshire dales thanks so much for coming on so jump officials have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast to other countries responses to coronavirus this. week we're supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by miss sadie's and mclaren will they make a big difference to what we're facing here in britain i'm afraid they're desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the failure to test the shortage of p.c.r. machines i understand slopes the personal protective equipment and i also understand that there's now an emerging issue about oxygen supplies for ventilating people even if we have the ventilator so. this all goes back to the failure to get a grip on this emergency right at the beginning when it became apparent that something was happening very serious at the end of january beginning of february when the prime minister failed to convene and sheer kerber of the emergency committee for governments because what should have happened at that p

faculty of public health professor john ashton about why so many nurses and doctors are dying on the so-called front line is u.k. and u.s. backed is the misuse coronavirus to propagandize against the west we speak to the author of a new book about the rise of the u.s. u.k. backed islam is a true one of its lesser known figureheads the anticommunist firebrand of donna has another place to be in the 1980 s. if you saw terror around the world there's new york texas and california all the support coming up in today's going underground the 1st u.k. prime minister barak's johnson's 1st full day back in downing street was marked by revelations his government has been deliberately inflating the amount of life saving equipment available to doctors nurses and cleaners on the front line against coronavirus a pair of surgical gloves was considered to be 2 items of p p and this came just as johnson's health secretary matt hancock offered $60000.00 pounds pay off for dead frontline n.h.s. staff joining me now from cumbria in the north west of england is the former president of the u.k. faculty of

john ashton is a public health expert and long—standing critic of the government.not having adequate stockpiles. you need everything to protect against this kind of virus. it's breathtaking that there were no gowns at all in stock, breathtaking! and we have discovered it wasn'tjust gowns left off the shopping list. the government also failed to by other essential items that would be needed in a pandemic. the government didn't buy any visors at all. there were no swabs either which makes testing for the virus more difficult, and the government did not buy a single body bag, despite the fact they were supposed to be preparing for a pandemic. and panorama has discovered that millions of respirator masks are unaccounted for stop 33 million were on the original stockpile shopping list, but only 12 million have been handed out, and the government refuses to explain where the other life—saving masks have gone. the consequence of not planning, not ordering kit, not having stocks, not having stockpiles is that we are sending in to the front line doctors, nurses, other healt

faculty of public health professor john ashton who joins me now via skype from dead . and in the yorkshire dales john thanks so much for coming on so trump officials have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast to other countries' responses to coronavirus this week we're supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by i must say these and mclaren will they make a big difference to what we're facing here in britain i'm afraid their desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the failure to test the shortage of p.c.r. machines i understand slopes the personal protective equipment and i also understand that there's now an emerging issue about oxygen supplies ventilating people even if we have the ventilator so. this all goes back to the failure to get a grip on this emergency right at the beginning when it became apparent that something was happening very serious at the end of january beginning of february when the prime minister failed to convene and sheer kerber of the emergency committee for governments because what should

faculty of public health professor john ashton about why so many nurses and doctors are dying on the so-called from.

faculty of public health professor john ashton about why so many nurses and doctors are dying on the so-called front line is u.k. and u.s. backed is the misuse coronavirus to propagandize against the west we speak to the author of a new book about the rise of u.s. u.k. backed islam is a true one of its lesser known figureheads the anticommunist firebrand of donna has another place to be in the 1980 s. if you saw terror around the world this new york texas and california all the civil coming up in today's going underground the 1st u.k. prime minister barak's johnson's 1st full day back in downing street was marked by revelations his government has been deliberately inflating the amounts of life saving equipment available to doctors nurses and cleaners on the front line against coronavirus a pair of surgical gloves was considered to be 2 items of p p and this came just as johnson's health secretary matt hancock.

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john ashton is a former regional director of public health and a critic of the government. you need everything to protect against this kind of virus. it's breathtaking that there were no gowns at all in stock, breathtaking! the government didn't buy any visors at all. there were no swabs either, which makes testing for the virus more difficult. and the government didn't buy a single body bag despite the fact they were supposed to be preparing for a pandemic. for weeks, the government has been dealing with criticism about stocks of ppe. it says it's delivered a billion items, but the government is counting items you might not think of as ppe, such as cleaning equipment, waste bags, detergent and paper towels. more than half the items are surgical gloves, and in most cases, each individual glove is counted rather than pairs. the second biggest item is plastic aprons that offer limited protection. when i spoke to this doctor, there were only four left in his a&e department so he had to use an apron. the government says it's been working day and night to battle against coronavi

faculty of public health president ashton john thanks so much for coming back on so how gravy. is the situation right now because the u.k. apparently faces errors incompetence isn't malfeasance all on the part of bart johnson's government well i think you know we're looking at errors of commission and mission misleading communications not least with regards to things like the numbers of deaths and insisting on early presenting the hospital deaths not including the current home deaths or the eleanor states that are fully and keeping us in the dark about what's going on in the prisons which also seems to be cooking up as an issue so i'm very bothered about this there seems to be an early erosion of troops and the general feeling that you know we don't know what they're saying they're not being straight with us even though i'm trying to ski said you couldn't quantify media bias you mentioned there the apparent mismatch of death rate do you think the government is deliberately minimizing the death rates the same parent mismatch between the japanese own financial times estimates of

we need a national care service as well as a national health service reza john ashton thank you very much we always invite the head of on the show to after the break we talk to professor lewis dartnell who is always warned that a pandemic was a more immediate threat to the human species and climate change about how shakes out global political history all of them all coming up about who are going underground. and we're going to fulfill the repeated promises of politics to the people and the market but you know we've all but. you know. you. pray. that you want to work. no. for. a. link ok link i link up my you are. welcome back well while successive major nation government failed to prepare us for a viral pandemic one scholar always claimed a virus could be the biggest threat to the human species u.k. professor lewis dartnell though i caught up with skype his new book origins how the earth shaped human history traces the way ancient geology may have helped determine that it is boris johnson and donald trump who make today's life or death decisions about coronavirus i started by asking

john ashton is a former regional director of public help in a critic of the government.gainst this kind of virus. it's breathtaking that there were no grounds at all in stock. breathtaking. the government didn't buy any advisers at all. there were no swabs either which makes testing for the virus more difficult. the government didn't buy a single body bag despite the fact there was supposed to be preparing for a pandemic. for weeks the government has been dealing with criticism about stocks of ppe. it says it's delivered a billion items. but government is counting items you might not think of as ppe such as cleaning equipment, waste bags, detergent and paper towels. more than half the items are surgical gloves and in most cases each individual glove is counted rather than pairs. the second biggest item is plastic aprons. that offer limited protection. when i spoke to doctor there were only for counsel left in his a&e department. so he had to use in apron. the government says it's been working day and night to battle against coronavirus. and to protect our nhs and save li

john and i cannot be more pleased. we took the fastest wideout in the draft, he said his father was looking down and smiling. >> no doubt. by the way the jets moments ago selected cal safety, ashtondavis, with the fourth pick of the third round. another day which in history, joe fonzi now with this day in sports. >> reporter: the warriors were rolling on their way to their second nba championship in three years on this day in 2017. six warriors had double figures in a balance attack that resulted in a round of the portland trail blazers and a sweep of that first-round series. on this day in 1967, the san francisco warriors were playing in the cal palace, and coming up short in the nba finals him a losing to wilt chamberlain and the philadelphia 76ers, four games to two. and the spurs david robinson was feeling it on this day in 1994, but he had help. trailing orlando, shaquille o'neal by an average of less than a point per game, his teammates fed him the ball all night in the regular season finale. robinson totaled 71 point and got that scoring title. that is this day in sports, april 24. i am joe fonzi. >> finally let's wrap things up with a little bit of friday levity. we call