"What I enjoy about this Coronavirus report."
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It was one of the country's worst public health failures say MPs. Thousands of lives were lost following the UK’s failure to do more to stop Covid spreading, according to the report published earlier this week. The 150-page document, Coronavirus:Lessons learned to date looked at the response to the pandemic predominantly in England. The approach, they said, was for the government to try and manage infection rates and in effect, achieve herd immunity by infection. And there were accusations of apparent “group think” among scientists. But they did also highlight the success of the vaccination rollout. So what has the response to the report been in Scotland and what are the consequences, if any, of the report?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.6 | coming out of Hollywoodrood and Westminster. |
| 0:21.2 | It is 12 minutes past two on Thursday the 14th of October. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:29.3 | I'm Phil Sim, a reporter not based at the Scottish Parliament right now because it's in recess |
| 0:33.1 | and thus in my house. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Lindsay Bues, a correspondent based in Edinburgh. |
| 0:38.9 | Nick Hurdley based at Westminster. |
| 0:41.7 | So, this week, both parliaments in recess, |
| 0:44.6 | Westminster in recess as well, Nick, yeah? |
| 0:47.1 | Well, sort of half. |
| 0:48.7 | Like MPs aren't here, but peers are. |
| 0:51.3 | So the House of Lords is sitting. |
| 0:53.4 | So it's kind of like a wee-res, a wee-ses. |
| 0:55.9 | A wee-siss. |
| 0:57.9 | That sounds like a whole different thing. |
| 1:01.3 | We-sense. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm sure I like the sign for that. |
| 1:04.9 | So like so much of the kind of day-to-day business isn't happening |
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