Disabled people were an “afterthought” in the UK’s pandemic response, according to equalities experts.
The UK’s Covid-19 inquiry today heard knowledge of the risks posed to some of the country’s most vulnerable groups was “very well known or should be well known” by top decision-makers. But despite this, ministers were accused of overlooking concerns, prompting campaigners to call for an overhaul at the heart of Westminster.
“Disabled people were an afterthought,” Thomas Shakespeare, a disability researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the latest evidence session.
