“We locked down late and that cost us a unit full of people,” Breeze said. “The lack of lives saved by test and trace were massively outweighed by the lives cost by not sanctioning Cummings for his jaunt and the signal that sent to everyone that lockdowns are something you can pick and choose when you want to.”
He noticed patterns among victims – disproportionately from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and overweight.
“We had more BAME patients than we should have done and the staff members we lost were all BAME,” he said. “Most of the younger people we lost were black – people in their 30s and 40s.”