in the united states. many are having trouble getting an appointment for vaccine shot. mayor adams is asking that they delay the second dose. we take a moment to explain the threat of this virus and disturbing echoes of past public health failures. i started off with a few lesions. speech as the flu systems they became excruciatingly tingly painful. reporter: knowing exactly what it feels like to have monkeypox, matt is taking to social media to warn people about the virus. [ bleep ] sucks and you don t want it. reporter: his frustration is that even as awareness grows, those that need it might have a
get that down you, lads, ey? events like the cheltenham racing festival in mid march, the report adds, may have spread the virus. i think there is an issue there of hindsight, because at the time of the first lockdown, the expectation was that the tolerance in terms of how long people would live with lockdown for was a far shorter period than actually has proven to be the case. the second lockdown came in november. mps say a so called circuit breaker in england in september might have slowed the virus, though the emergence of a new variant wasn t then known. labour said the report s stark conclusions couldn t be ignored. to use language that this was one of the worst public health failures in the uk, that is a damning indictment. and my thoughts are with the families who ve lost people because of these failures. the mps report is highly critical of the test and trace system in england. it says it was set up much too late and that capacity
throughout, we protected the nhs from the surge of pressure that we saw in other countries such as italy. as you say, we got the vaccine deployed extremely quickly. but also, what we know about the pandemic now is very different to what the level of knowledge was at the start. labour, though, said the report showed monumental errors had been made. this was one of the worst public health failures in the uk. that is a damning indictment. and my thoughts are with the families who have lost people because of these failures by the government. the last year has seen the country come together in support of the nhs. this report is just the first study of its kind to look back at what mps call the biggest health crisis of the last century. next spring, a full, public inquiry will examine in detail what lessons should be learned from the pandemic. jim reed, bbc news. our political correspondent
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