Salford’s own ‘moonshot’, a trial that was itself announced to fanfare less than two months before the Liverpool pilot, was in reality a very initial pilot of new technology.
At the time the government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance noted of mass testing that ‘we would be completely wrong to assume this is a slam dunk that can definitely happen’, although it was hailed as a ‘freedom pass’ by the government.
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