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The Health Policy Response to COVID-19 in England
By Prof. Mike Saks

From Day 1: COVID-19 Impacts on Health and Society of the 15th Asia Pacific Sociological Association 2020 Two-day Webinar on COVID-19, Climate, and Health, October 6, 2020

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the world – with differing macro political responses impacting people’s lives. In England the government response to coronavirus has been much criticised. This criticism has included, amongst other things, making too late a response to the initial wave of coronavirus, delaying providing personal protective equipment and being slow to impose quarantine restrictions on travellers to England. While there is of course some mitigation given the left-field nature of this crisis, this has resulted in greater morbidity and mortality than necessary. Further criticism has emerged with the second wave of coronavirus, not least in terms of the inadequate test and trace arrangements and the absence of clear and sufficiently firm action to suppress the virus. From a sociological viewpoint several points in this paper are made about the social, political and economic influences on the shape of the government response. The effects of the response are also considered – not least in terms of widening and exacerbating health inequalities for minority groups, the unemployed and the digitally disadvantaged at all levels in education. Comment is finally made on the excessive government reliance on clinically-based rather than social scientific advice in framing its policies which have amplified the debilitating effects of social distancing and self-isolation.

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