Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A scathing report released in Britain details the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying early failures to take the disease seriously took thousands of lives.
It said that all four United Kingdom governments -- England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland -- failed to understand the scale of the threat.
"The inquiry finds that the response of the four governments repeatedly amounted to a case of 'too little, too late,'" it said.
The inquiry, led by Baroness Heather Hallett, a retired appeals judge, used modeling data that showed that if the lockdown had begun a week earlier, there would have been 23,000 fewer deaths. The report is 750 pages, divided into two volumes.
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