People who died with Covid were treated like “toxic waste”, bereaved families have told the UK Covid-19 public inquiry, as they expressed their determination to channel their “grief, frustration and heartbreak” into making the UK better prepared for future pandemics.
Representatives of campaign groups from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland told the inquiry how widespread infection in hospitals and care homes, failures to use PPE properly, the use of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation orders and isolation of vulnerable people all showed how the nations were not properly prepared.
