🔴 The government’s scientific advisers believe public funding cuts hammered the Covid response 🔴 The Department of Health has admitted it got things wrong janemerrick23 looks at four things we learned from day two of the Covid inquiry ⬇️
has been hearing submissions from the UK, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Governments as well as expert witness evidence, as Baroness Hallett investigates whether the country was properly prepared for a pandemic.
The issue of cuts under the Cameron government’s austerity regime has been raised by the TUC and bereaved families – but this is the first time figures who were involved in the Government’s pandemic response have blamed them.Fiona Scolding KC, representing the Department for Health and Social Care, which led the UK’s response to Covid, acknowledged that the Government made mistakes, including not introducing widespread testing for the virus in the early weeks of the pandemic.
“The department recognises the strength of feeling amongst some that certain of the decisions made by us were wrong. For example, some people feel that“Others hold an opposite and contrary view that the department was often faced with a choice between a series of hugely unpalatable options, all of which were certain to have negative impacts on the citizens of the United Kingdom, in one way or another.
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