Covid inquiry live: Boris Johnson to be questioned over impact of pandemic on children
The former prime minister is appearing at the UK’s Covid-19 inquiryYesterday at the inquiry England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty suggested that at the time decision makers were faced with a series of “very bad” choices, where some of them were “a bit worse and some of them were a lot worse.”He defended closures of school, saying:What I am confident about saying is that had schools not closed, and based on the evidence we had at the time and I don’t think evidence subsequently has undermined that, the peak of the pandemic would have been higher and that would have had obviously direct effect from deaths from Covid in the first wave, but would have increased the risk of all the indirect effects from health services being be unable to function.So I think not closing schools would have had a material effect on the pandemic being significantly worse. Continue reading...
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The former prime minister is appearing at the UK’s Covid-19 inquiry
Yesterday at the inquiry England’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty suggested that at the time decision makers were faced with a series of “very bad” choices, where some of them were “a bit worse and some of them were a lot worse.”
He defended closures of school, saying:
What I am confident about saying is that had schools not closed, and based on the evidence we had at the time and I don’t think evidence subsequently has undermined that, the peak of the pandemic would have been higher and that would have had obviously direct effect from deaths from Covid in the first wave, but would have increased the risk of all the indirect effects from health services being be unable to function.
So I think not closing schools would have had a material effect on the pandemic being significantly worse.
Continue reading...
