Draft submission to the completely unnecessary second covid inquiry - critiques welcome
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https://www.europesays.com/1945278/ Michael McBride: Chief Medical Officer’s role in procuring Covid deals is questioned #CovidInquiry #DepartmentOfHealth #GarrettHargan #ireland #RobinSwann #UlsterUnionistParty
From the article: Tory peer Michelle Mone and PPE Medpro boss husband Doug Barrowman have branded the Covid inquiry an 'establishment cover-up'
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Given that the phrase "Tory peer" kind of screams establishment to me one does have wonder exactly to what she is referring, what would a Tory peer think of as the establishment?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/michelle-mone-brands-covid-inquiry-34857958
The Mirror · Tory peer at centre of PPE scandal brands Covid inquiry a 'cover up'Tory peer Michelle Mone and PPE Medpro boss husband Doug Barrowman have branded the Covid inquiry an 'establishment cover-up' after being told they will not be made core participants
Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/09/covid-five-years-on-uk-still-not-ready-to-protect-the-population #Infectiousdiseases #Covidinquiry #Healthpolicy #Coronavirus #Science #Health #UKnews #NHS
The Guardian · Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’
What has the UK Covid inquiry learned so far about vaccines and treatments? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/31/what-has-the-uk-covid-inquiry-learned-so-far-about-vaccines-and-treatments #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Covidinquiry #Healthpolicy #ChrisWhitty #Science #Society #Health #UKnews
The Guardian · What has the UK Covid inquiry learned so far about vaccines and treatments?
Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jan/27/gen-z-authoritarian-leader-uk-kemi-badenoch-covid-inquiry-conservatives-labour-uk-politics-latest-updates #BridgetPhillipson #Privateschools #Conservatives #Defencepolicy #Climatecrisis #Opinionpolls #KemiBadenoch #Covidinquiry #Mobilephones #Youngpeople #Voterapathy #DonaldTrump #KeirStarmer #Environment #EdMiliband #Education #Politics #Schools
the Guardian · Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – UK politics liveEnergy secretary insists there is ‘no contradiction between net zero and economic growth’ in hearing at Commons committee
"Mr Hancock accepted that a bed in intensive care could not be found for every individual patient who needed it at the height of the pandemic." Some evidence for those who try to play down the severity of the #pandemic. #COVID19 #CovidInquiry
BBC NewsMatt Hancock says NHS was 'hours' from PPE running out in CovidFormer health secretary tells inquiry some healthcare settings did run out - "and it was awful".
"In some places, we did run out of PPE," said Matt #Hancock, to the #CovidInquiry quiry today
"There isn't a lack of PPE it just seems to be in the wrong place," said Matt Hancock in April 2020
Module three of the #CovidInquiry focusses on the impact that the pandemic had on healthcare systems, patients and health care workers.
It baffles me that Simon Stevens, head of NHS England at the time, is not being called as a witness.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm2mpg1ljrdt?post=asset%3A044d5eeb-d91d-4e71-a7d4-b19b4b754d4c#post
BBC NewsUK Covid inquiry live: Covid put intense pressure on NHS but it did not collapse, Hancock tells inquiryThe former health secretary is challenged on whether hospitals and Intensive Care Units (ICUs) were overwhelmed during the pandemic.
“Although Hancock says there was no national shortage of PPE he admits this doesn't mean there weren't shortages in individual hospitals.”
I don’t really understand this. If there was no national shortage then why didn’t the PPE go to the places it was needed?
#CovidInquiry
Hancock is testifying all day today in the #CovidInquiry if you can bear to watch.
https://buff.ly/35CFqBD
UK Covid-19 InquiryWhat is the UK Covid-19 Inquiry? - UK Covid-19 InquiryThe UK Covid-19 Inquiry has been set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future. The Inquiry’s work is guided by its Terms of Reference.
Chris Riddell on the Tory nightmare after Halloween – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/nov/02/chris-riddell-on-the-tory-nightmare-after-halloween-cartoon #Autumnbudget2024 #Covidinquiry #Lifeandstyle #RishiSunak #Halloween #Politics #UKnews
The Guardian · Chris Riddell on the Tory nightmare after Halloween – cartoon
"Is the Covid Inquiry about learning lessons or covering backs?"
Last month's testimony on masks and airborne spread has left many bemused
My latest substack on the #CovidInquiry
https://kityates.substack.com/p/is-the-covid-inquiry-about-learning
Kit Yates - Math(s) and the real world · Is the Covid Inquiry about learning lessons or covering backs?
"There is more to know than just what you can count"
Powerful testimony from the #CovidInquiry on the limits of what data can convey in my latest substack.
https://buff.ly/3Xzn5fC
Kit Yates - Math(s) and the real world · There is more to know than just what you can count
Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/future-pandemic-as-big-as-covid-is-inevitable-says-whitty #Infectiousdiseases #Covidinquiry #ChrisWhitty #Coronavirus #Science #Society #UKnews #Health #NHS
The Guardian · Future pandemic as big as Covid is inevitable, says Whitty
'Lack of [#NHSEngland] #ICUcapacity was ‘political choice’, #ChrisWhitty tells #CovidInquiry – #UK politics live
#ChiefMedicalOfficer #England] tells #Covid19 inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries'
'The main thing we could do at the beginning, before we understood it slightly better, was to reduce the amount of Covid. If you don’t get Covid, you don’t get #LongCovid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/sep/26/uk-politics-labour-keir-starmer-un-general-assembly-speech
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryLegacy
the Guardian · Lack of ICU capacity was ‘political choice’, Chris Whitty tells Covid inquiry – as it happenedChief medical officer tells Covid inquiry that UK had ‘very low’ capacity compared with other wealthy countries
'Doctor in tears at #CovidInquiry says what #NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’
#ProfKevinFong, who was on shift during 7/7 bombings, says height of pandemic was like a ‘#TerroristAttackEveryDay’'
'data that officials in #London relied upon to understand how hospitals were faring failed to capture the reality of the crisis on the frontline, he said, with some hospitals “bursting at the seams” & close to “a state of collapse”.'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/doctor-in-tears-at-covid-inquiry-says-what-nhs-staff-saw-was-indescribable
#COVID19 #NHSEngland #ToryPoliciesInAction
The Guardian · Doctor in tears at Covid inquiry says what NHS staff saw was ‘indescribable’
Why isn't Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Dido Harding, currently the Senior Steward at The Jockey Club? We would like to hear the her excuse and detailed explanations for spaffing £37 BILLION of taxpayers' money on the useless Test and Trace. We haven't forgotten, though of course the press have...very conveniently. #CovidInquiry
So pleased that things like this are finally being said, albeit at the Covid Inquiry rather than in time to save the many healthcare workers who spent the pandemic inadequately protected. I start to have more faith we might get it right next time... #CovidIsAirborne #CovidInquiry