The U.K government's approach to tackling the coronavirus outbreak at the start of the pandemic has been called one of the country's worst ever public health failures.
The report, which examined the U.K.'s initial response to the Covid pandemic, found that the government made major mistakes at the start of the global outbreak, including its apparent decision to allow Covid to spread throughout the population in a bid to achieve "herd immunity," and its hesitation to lock down the country.
The latter route is generally preferred as it avoids adverse effects such as excess deaths caused by a virus. However, with no Covid vaccines available at the start of the pandemic, some countries, like the U.K. and Sweden, appeared to favor allowing the virus to spread among the population to some extent in a bid to achieve a level of herd immunity in their populations.
By doing this the U.K. "made a serious early error in adopting this fatalistic approach and not considering a more emphatic and rigorous approach to stopping the spread of the virus as adopted by many East and South East Asian countries," the inquiry found. In addition, the inquiry found that the U.K.'s preparedness for a pandemic had been widely acclaimed in advance, but performed less well than many other countries in practice. It also said that the pandemic underlined the need for an urgent and long term strategy to tackle health inequalities.
Another political hit piece. Must be against Boris if is posting
Herd immunity assumes everyone in the herd wants the same results using the same processes. Unfortunately too many in the herd do not want the vaccine.
Herd immunity with Meds that work is inevitable. Too many variants, Covid is here to stay next to it's cousin the Flu
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