Sharing sir cyril s view , prof griffiths said that in reaching judgements , full account had been taken of the hazards of retrospective judgement , and therefore efforts had been made by the committee in each instance to examine the subject matter in the context of what was known , and what could have been done , at the time 葛菲雪教授认同钱卓乐爵士的观点，并谓专家委员会在得出这个结论时，已经充分考虑事后论断的危险，因此在研究每一件事件时，都尽力设身处地探讨当时所知以及能够做到的限度。
Addressing the full committee this ( august 13 ) morning , the co - chairman of the sars expert committee , sir cyril chantler , said the committee s main task in the next two days was to make sure that members shared a common understanding of the issues arising from the factual account of the sars outbreak 专家委员会联合主席钱卓乐爵士今（八月十三日）早在全体会议上致辞时表示，专家委员会未来两日的主要工作，是确保委员从综合症爆发的事实?述中，就相关问题达成共识。
" we have examined issues most relevant to the terms of reference of the committee from the perspectives of public health , disease control , contingency planning , outbreak control mechanism and actions , as well as system designs to critically and professionally assess whether the administration , the health authorities and the hospital management had properly discharged their duties and functions under the very difficult situations at that time , " sir cyril said 我们从公共?生、疾病控制、应变计划、控制机制及行动，以及系统设计多个层面，以严谨及专业的方法去研究所有问题，评估政府、 ?生机关及医院管理层，在当时非常困难的时间，有否各司其职。
