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up preparation before the pandemic hit. up to late january 2020. today was the opening statements, when the lawyers are set out their arguments. so far it has been largely believed groups and independent organisations. but what we heard again and again were allegations that the uk s preparation for a pandemic was inadequate. firstly, the inquiry heard it was a flue pandemic, despite the fact there have been several coronavirus outbreaks including sars and mars. the british medical association argued that as a result we could not cope with a virus like covid that spread through airborne transmission. initially considered hand washing. what else was there? the uk s pandemic focus on the worst case scenario. what would we do if hundreds of thousands of people died? that meant there was no
In a recent viewpoint article published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers underscored the need for prompt adoption of scientific evidence, using the delayed acceptance of the airborne mode of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission as an example.