Covid inquiry report: We planned for failure

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has published its module 1 report on the resilience and preparedness of the UK.1 The report is clear and thorough, finding nine major flaws and making 10 recommendations.Much has been made of the UK “planning for the wrong pandemic.”2345 In fact, the core problem is that there was never a plan to prevent or control a pandemic at all—of any disease type.It was never part of the plan to prevent or reduce pandemic deathsIn chapter 3 on risk assessment, Heather Hallett, chair of the inquiry, wrote, “Planning was focused on dealing with the impact of the disease (in this case, influenza) rather than preventing its spread. As a consequence, the levels of illness and fatalities of a pandemic were assumed to be inevitable and there was no consideration of the potential mitigation and suppression of the disease.”In chapter 4 she says that under the existing flu…
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