The prime minister’s science advisers have demanded more money for public health, including creating “a large cohort” of community health workers to run test and trace when the next pandemic strikes.
The Government Office for Science, led until recently by Sir Patrick Vallance, told the closing of the Covid-19 public inquiry investigation into the UK’s preparedness that the government should follow South Korea with a “better developed and funded public health system” that would improve public health in peacetime and pivot to test and trace in a pandemic.
