Dominic Cummings: health department was 'smoking ruin' at start of pandemic
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5FEXT)
Boris Johnson's former top aide tells MPs there is need for urgent inquiry into handling of Covid crisis
Boris Johnson's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, has called for an investigation into the government's handling of coronavirus and described the Department of Health and Social Care as a smoking ruin" when the crisis struck.
Cummings told MPs there was a need for a a very, very hard look" at what went wrong and why, adding that problems at the DHSC prompted him, along with Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, to argue for a separate taskforce to procure vaccines for the UK.
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