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So much of the Sunday Times piece is utterly damning. This, among many lines: a source said preparations for no-deal Brexit "sucked all the blood out of pandemic planning". (But this crisis is not about politics, apparently)
A senior department of health insider:
“I had watched Wuhan but I assumed we must have not been worried because we did nothing.... We could have been Germany but instead we were doomed by our incompetence, our hubris and our austerity.”
Also: the British Healthcare Trades Association was ready to help supply PPE from February but it was only on April 1 that the government accepted its offer of help. Current shortages for NHS and care workers could have been avoided.
Will be on Sky news later tonight discussing this and other Sunday papers on the press preview
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