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NEW: #TheCovidReport: what price a life?

'It's *unbelievable* how incompetent the ability to source PPE has been,' @profhelenward

Join @paulmasonnews & experts for the weekly antidote to the daily press conference @allthecitizens

This week: lockdown, the economy, is there any way out?

'The Office of Budget Responsibility, the govt's own watchdog...suggested the economy would bounce back later this year. But no economist thinks that's a remotely plausible scenario,' Prof @michaelujacobs.

This week, the view from the US with @aoc's economic advisor, Robert Hockett @rch371

'The understand here is that the CIA informed the Trump administration as early as November that a massive pandemic was on the way and we should have been preparing for it in advance"

'Covid 19 is not an equaliser. It's massively increasingly inequalities. The people who can stay home...are more advantaged. And the people who have to go out expose themselves are those who suffer poverty,' @Dr2NisreenAlwan

#TheCovidReport