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Covid-19: Failure to control pandemic and inequalities made England worst affected in Europe, says report

A failure to control the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with widening inequality over the past decade, has led to England having the highest rate of excess deaths from covid-19 in Europe, a new report concluded.1 Rather than focusing on narrow economic goals, health and wellbeing should be at the heart of government strategy, it says.

The findings and recommendations from the report by Michael Marmot, director of University College London’s Institute of Health Equity, add to those made in a 10 year update, published in February,2 of the landmark 2010 Marmot review of strategies for reducing health inequality. The update showed that England was entering the pandemic in a poor state of health, with life expectancies in its most deprived areas declining and a slower improvement in overall life expectancy than in almost any other rich nation.

At a press conference to launch his …