Covid inquiry: Lessons will be learned before next pandemic
The UK public inquiry launches with the promise of a robust look into whether more could have been done. …
But in weighing up our preparedness for the pandemic, there is one number that perhaps tells the most powerful story. In the first wave between March and June 2020, nearly 20,000 care home residents died of Covid in England and Wales. At that time, it represented more than a third of the total number of deaths.