World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation
World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation
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DOI：
10.1017/s174413312000033x
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发表时间：
2022-04-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Paton, Calum
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作者：
Paton, Calum
英国，尤其是英格兰，在控制新冠肺炎疫情方面遭遇了极其糟糕的结果。这一简短的视角指向了从当前英国政治和公共卫生政策传承的角度进行解释。鲍里斯·约翰逊的首相生涯诞生于对英国例外论的机会主义断言中，约翰逊对小说冠状病毒的最初、具有诱惑力的反应将英国带入了错误的道路。此外，在近40年的时间里，(尤其是卫生)决策的专业性逐渐受到侵蚀，卫生保障基础设施的空心化，都为管理新冠肺炎的有害方法提供了便利，并加剧了这种做法。
The UK, and England in particular, has suffered egregiously poor outcomes in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. This short perspective points to the explanation in terms of both current British politics and the public health policy inheritance. Boris Johnson's Premiership was born in an opportunistic assertion of British exceptionalism, and Johnson's initial, fate-tempting reaction to the novel Coronavirus set the UK on the wrong path. Furthermore, the gradual erosion of professionalism in (especially health) policy-making over almost four decades, and the hollowing-out of the health protection infrastructure, both facilitated and accentuated a toxic approach to managing Covid-19.