The COVID-19 emergency is over, but there are still lessons to be learnt

Coroner reports are a unique source of data that often go unused

The WHO has declared that COVID-19 is no longer a public health emergency. Over the 1,191 days, almost 7 million deaths from COVID-19 were reported. In England and Wales, just over 200,000 deaths had COVID-19 recorded on the death certificate.

To learn lessons, the UK Government launched an independent public inquiry; the UK COVID-19 Inquiry. The inquir…