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Official response to Covid risk to disabled people ‘was failure of human accounting’

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Official response to Covid risk to disabled people ‘was failure of human accounting’
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The government’s discriminatory response to the pandemic led to disabled people facing a greater risk of death and other harm, the Covid public inquiry has been told by disabled people’s organisations (DPOs). In a statement to a preliminary hearing yesterday (Wednesday), […]

Covid inquiry ‘must publish early report on safety of clinically vulnerable people’

By John Pring on 2nd March 2023 Category: Human Rights

Covid inquiry ‘must publish early report on safety of clinically vulnerable people’
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The Covid public inquiry should produce an interim report that would suggest measures to improve the safety of disabled people who continue to be at far higher risk of severe harm from coronavirus, campaigners have urged. The campaign group Clinically Vulnerable […]

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