Hunt wishes he had done more to challenge this "groupthink" during his tenure.
He also revealed that there was a protocol in place before Exercise Cygnus that allowed the health secretary to order intensive care beds to be emptied, but he did not feel comfortable with the idea of making such a decision.
LONDON DAILY ARCHIVE
Jeremy Hunt, the former UK health secretary, has given evidence to the Covid inquiry and stated that quarantining people sooner might have avoided the first lockdown
He also said that the UK's focus on flu in pandemic planning led to an assumption that viruses could not be slowed down.
21 June 2023 · 19:33 UTC
