The first week of the long-awaited inquiry into the handling of the pandemic has passed. Here's what we learned.
Mr Keith produced the government's workflow for pandemic preparedness and response - a muddled tangle of lines, arrows and instructions described by Sam Jacobs, representing the Trade Union Congress, as:"A visual and striking representation of a fragmented system which looks much more like a bowl of spaghetti than a clear and coordinated framework for a cogent national response."
However, their legal representatives urged Baroness Hallett not to impose"retroscope" decision-making. A situation detailed in UK Health Security Agency chief executive Professor Jenny Harries' written statement to the inquiry:"In 2018 on a UK national level, Public Health England identified there had been a gap in national strategy across governments focusing on infectious diseases…The gap had been apparent since 2002."Having recognised this gap, work was then started in 2018 to address that issue of a strategy for infectious diseases.
One of the impacts of this policy, when combined with increasing health inequalities and decreasing health standards in the UK before the pandemic, was that attempts to mitigate the most vulnerable parts of the population suffering disproportionately weren't successful.COVID inquiry begins with remarks from chair
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