Alarming new data shows the UK was ‘sick man’ of Europe even before Covid
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A global study has exposed how poorly prepared Britain was for a virus that targets our most vulnerable people.
By Richard Horton
Our health is determined by far more than a single virus. This week, a team of scientists in Seattle, together with thousands of contributors around the world, assembled 3.5bn pieces of data to construct what they are calling the Global Burden of Disease. The story this data tells us about Britain is alarming. On some of the most important measures of health, the f...
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