The UK is now worse prepared for a pandemic than it was when Covid-19 first swept the country, a former government health minister has warned.
We are waiting for important lessons learned' from the Covid inquiry and in the meantime our pandemic preparedness has gone backwards in key areas such as mass-testing, NHS resilience, global viral surveillance, Whitehall agility, vaccine supply and development, and the underlying health of the nation.
Our surveillance is no better than it was in the beginning of 2020...Everything has gone back to where it was before 2020. The urgency has just dribbled away.
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