Covid response one of UK’s worst ever public health failures according to a report by MPs.

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Sorry if this has been posted already, but couldn’t see a post about it.

A report by MPs headed by two former Conservative govt ministers came out today which says the covid response is one of UK’s worst ever public health failures.

Guardian write about it here www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/oct/12/covid-response-one-of-uks-worst-ever-public-health-failures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A further Guardian article writes: ‘the failure to prevent tens of thousands of deaths during Britain’s brutal second wave of Covid infections was a more serious error than the timing of the first lockdown, senior scientists have told the Guardian, after a damning report by MPs on the handling of the pandemic. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/the-real-problem-is-the-repetition-of-mistakes-scientists-react-to-covid-enquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BBC have written an analysis on the report here www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58890472

We didn't have to let Alpha in - and even if, unlike fellow international travel hubs eg NYC, we did have to let it in, we absolutely didn't have to let it spread.

Anyway enough misery from me for tonight.

Time for a nice hot chocolate (possibly with a drop of medicinal brandy).

Goodnight all

@User135644

there's no possible excuse for the huge death toll in January and February 2021.

Especially when the vaccine roll out picked up pace late December into January. Most of those 50,000 deaths could have been prevented and we ended up in a longer lockdown anyway.

Yes.

We had the vaccines in the country and being put into vials when Boris Johnson bowed to pressure from Steve Baker and made a political decision to opened the country back up on December 2nd 2020.

Vaccination of the most vulnerable began days later.

If we'd stayed in lockdown - or better still never let numbers get so high in the first place - the January and February death toll would have been dramatically smaller. Possibly just a quarter of what they were.

Instead we had a few weeks of tiers then a long lockdown began on January 5th.

Cases were 16,170 on December 2nd.

And 60,916 by January 5th.

I do not think there will be another lockdown because it goes against the right of the Conservative party

Surely you're not suggesting, @MatildaIThink, that the current U.K. government would prioritise internal party politics over what's best for Britain?

And that they'd choose the deaths of tens of thousands of British people over making Conservative MPs and donors cross?