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I wrote an initial piece on all this back at the start of the crisis in March, when it was clear that there were some delays in the UK Government announcing its policies.
The back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that there were perhaps a couple of hundred more deaths a week from non-Covid related causes than would have been expected during March. We need to see what those causes were and get on top of them as soon as we can.
Wage subsidies will be backdated to 1 March but, depending on the business’s liquidity, it might need to take out a loan to cover it until the end of April.
In the previous evidence session at the end of March, Dr Katie Boyle made the excellent point that “we can all agree on some kind of understanding of human dignity as a basic component.”