All Yours Boris Johnson: Covid: UK's early response worst public health failure ever, MPs say

[malaise]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58876089


The UK's failure to do more to stop Covid spreading early in the pandemic was one of the worst ever public health failures, a report by MPs says.

The government approach - backed by its scientists - was to try to manage the situation and in effect achieve herd immunity by infection, it said.

This led to a delay in introducing the first lockdown, costing thousands of lives.

But the report highlights successes too, including the vaccination rollout.

It described the whole approach to the vaccination programme - from the research and development through to the rollout of the jabs - as "one of the most effective initiatives in UK history

[FarPoint]

1. Yes....

He was following tRumps lead....I recall the failure of Boris....oh....then he caught a serious case of covid-19 himself right away....that appears to of been a small learning curve for him...

[malaise]

2. Yep - that was his wake up call

[joetheman]

4. Uhmmmm maybe second after TFG's messages about COVID and bleach etc. nt

[Doodley]

5. It is still a failure now with 40,000 new cases a day, the second highest in the world (after USA).