22 March 2022: Presentation (Production in Scotland/Northern Ireland) - C

It was useful to hear Jenni comment on Dr Lane's suggestion that patients were very much in favour of receiving factor concentrates over cryo. As she has before, she commented that such a perceived preference may be strongly influenced by what patients were being told, or not told.

It is interesting to see how Inquiry Counsel and the Chair deal with an individual's witness statement when the person is not there themselves to speak to it. The publicly made assessment during a presentation may suggest how they also assess the evidence after a live witness has appeared. This might include things like questioning the wording used, lack of clarity or consistency, statements which are not tautologous, etc. This should provide comfort to those of us who worry that certain witnesses are being given an "easy ride". In other words, just because a doctor says something doesn't automatically make it so.

There's been more to suggest the UKHCDO was up to their necks in controlling the flow or lack of flow of information to grassroots health professionals and patients at crucial times when knowledge was emerging that would have life-changing ramifications for those subsequently infected by viruses.

It was noteworthy to hear Sir Brian call for a short pause while he completed a personal entry in his handwritten record. I hope his notebooks are kept in a high security vault at a secret location.

Clearly, the issue of achieving the apparent Nirvana situation of being self-sufficient in blood for medical uses is far more nuanced than simply saying "commercial/US bad, voluntary/UK good". Viruses were in the UK population, undoubtedly. The more salient points seem to be the lack of investment in production and processing facilities, and the interest in making scientific progress towards building personal academic reputations and enhancing corporate profits at the expense of a few patients who were going to die early anyway.

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