I offer the link to Anthony Costello's twitter feed -he was on Channel 4 News last week arguing that one consequence of the UK Government's Exercise Cygnus, was that they decided not to stockpile ventilators and PPE but save money and opt to use supply chains should a pandemic take place. We can now see that supply chains have been a weak link because so many countries want the same supplies at the same time, and the UK is in the bizarre position of having stocks of PPE that have been sent abroad because they were in that supply chain! Supply chains may become new battleground if as some think can happen, governments decide China cannot be trusted, or relied upon to make things they can make themselves, though I doubt because of the capital cost that major industries are going to return to Europe and North America.
The twitter feed is here and has the cute argument that the countries that have been most successful in containing the worst aspects of Covid 19 all have one thing in common: they are led by women..
https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit?r...Ctwgr%5Eauthor
