Baroness Hallet has released her interim report

Into the UK covid pandemic and the then governments response.

To say it's findings are damning...is an understatement.

Poor preparedness.
Poor response structure.
Poor exercises pre-pandemic.

Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering

Institutions and structures responsible for emergency planning were labyrinthine in their complexity

Fatal strategic flaws underpinning the assessment of risks and their consequences

It goes on and on for several hundred pages

The inquiry has no hesitation in concluding that the processes; planning and policy of the civil contingency structures within the UK government and devolved administrations and civil services failed their citizens

https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports