The number of deaths from coronavirus in York Teaching Hospital Trust since the start of the pandemic has risen to moreb than 500. The national death toll exceeds 100,000. The government’s handling of this crisis has been lamentable, but the Prime Minister claims it has done ‘everything possible’. This is an astonishing failure. We should remember:
the slow initial response, with full lockdown on March 23, seven weeks after the first cases (in York), and two weeks after the disease was ripping through Lombardy
acute shortages of PPE
abject failure of ‘world beating’ test, track, and trace
Johnson’s Spring promises to ‘send the virus packing’