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The British government has been preparing for the pandemic with an outdated plan that is too focused on the flu, according to an official study.
By Lynsey Chutel
The British government “failed” the country’s citizens in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a damning report from an official public inquiry said on Thursday, in part because officials were prepared for “the pandemic. “
The arrival of Covid-19 in 2020 exposed flaws in Britain’s public fitness formula and its pandemic preparedness that had been ignored for years, according to the report. During the first waves of infections, Britain’s capita death rate was among the highest in Europe and eventually led to more than 225,000 deaths in total, according to official data.
“Had the United Kingdom been more prepared and resilient in the face of the pandemic, some of this monetary and human burden could have been avoided,” the report says.
Before the spread of the coronavirus, the British government assumed that the country had a robust fitness formula and a physically powerful pandemic plan that was in a position to deal with an outbreak of the disease. This is false, according to the report.
Britain had a plan, but it was “outdated and lacked adaptability,” according to the report.
There was also too much focus on the option of a flu pandemic. “While it was understandable that the UK prioritized the flu pandemic, this did not rule out other potential pathogen outbreaks,” the report says.
Additionally, according to the report, many other organizations were guilty of being prepared for a pandemic, meaning the overall formula is “labyrinthine” and difficult to navigate. It also found that the plan, which dates back to 2011, did not take into account growing inequalities in the provision of physical care and the deteriorating physical condition of vulnerable groups of the population, after years of budget cuts in the 2010s. .
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