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Vaccines are another sign of public-sector success and the failure of the market model

BORIS JOHNSON is set to get a big political bounce from the vaccination programme. But the success of vaccination, just like the failures of most of the Tory Covid-19 responses, shows that Johnson’s “free market” policies have let the virus run free, while stronger public health and welfare institutions are the cure.
The high Covid-19 death rate is even worrying the Conservative press. But they don’t want to think too deeply about why, preferring to see the answer in Boris Johnson’s personality, or a list of unconnected managerial failures and accidents.
But the real answer is that this is a public health emergency, so needs the strongest response from the public health and welfare institutions.
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