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Parliamentary Report: COVID-19 Response Was One of Biggest Public Health Failures in U.K. History

HeadlineOct 12, 2021

A new parliamentary report out of England has faulted the government’s initial response to COVID-19 as “one of the most important public health failures” in the country’s history. The report says thousands of lives could have been saved if the U.K. had imposed an earlier lockdown and took other steps.

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