According to health experts advising the U.K. government, the country's original coronavirus plan would have resulted in 250,000 deaths
Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images Last week, officials in the United Kingdom were privately roasting the Trump administration for its response to the coronavirus: “Our COVID-19 counter-disinformation unit would need twice the manpower if we included him in our monitoring,” one staffer told BuzzFeed News, referring to a task force designed to stop false reports from circulating during the crisis.
In that scenario, the result in the U.K. would be around 250,000 deaths. Despite a plan of attack almost exactly inverse to that of every other country effectively responding to the crisis, the conclusion that the U.K. had bungled its response — and lost critical weeks in staving off the spread — had “only been reached in the last few days.”
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