UK was Ill-prepared for COVID and Failed Its Citizens.

[The same things would almost certainly be found in each Canadian province.  Bad preparation and bad management in the event.  Still, we fared better than UK.

UK lost ~250,000 in a population of ~67 M.  Canada lost ~59,000 in a population of ~38 M.  UK had 3,730 dead per million; Canada had 1,550 dead per million.

For comparison, USA lost ~1,220,000 in a population of ~331 M, which is 3,685 dead per million.  Ed.]

Britain’s government was ill-prepared for COVID-19 and serious errors in planning failed its citizens, an inquiry into its handling of the pandemic said on Thursday.

Retired judge Heather Hallett, who is leading the ongoing inquiry, said the UK government wrongly believed in 2019 that it was one of the best-prepared countries in the world for an outbreak and it anticipated the wrong pandemic – influenza.

“This belief was dangerously mistaken,” Hallett said in releasing her first report.

“In reality, the UK was ill-prepared for dealing with the whole-system civil emergency of a pandemic, let alone the coronavirus pandemic that actually struck.”

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