Financial impact
Haiku
Stocks crash, chaos mounts.
Where did that originate?
Donald, and Boris.
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UPDATE
‘Biggest failure in a generation’: Where did Britain go wrong?, Bevan Shields, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 May 20120 — as the death toll climbs, critics say Britain’s response has suffered from a series of deadly mistakes and miscalculations.
The charges focus on four areas: that healthcare workers struggled to access personal protective equipment, that Britain was too slow to implement a lockdown, that it bungled testing, and that vulnerable care home residents were not properly protected.
Says Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an adviser to the World Health Organisation: “The countries that moved fast have curtailed the epidemic. The countries that delayed have not. It’s as simple as that.”
Dr Richard Horton, editor in chief of The Lancet medical journal, is even more damning: “The handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the UK is the most serious science policy failure in a generation.”
Coronavirus is the greatest global science policy failure in a generation, Richard Horton, The…
