Disability Rights UK (#DRUK), said: “With almost 60 per cent of #Covid deaths being those of #disabled people, it is hardly surprising that the Covid inquiry found that pre-#pandemic planning failed to take sufficient account of those with pre-existing conditions, those living in deprivation or those from minority ethnic communities.”

#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath

Link to #DisabilityNewsService #DNS website:

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/first-covid-inquiry-report-shows-criminally-negligent-attitude-of-previous-governments/

"The question was, what did government ministers know, and when?"

Good piece on UK deaths linked to disability benefit decisions, the investigative work of John Pring of Disability News Service, and the reluctance of mainstream media to pick up this kind of story.

(Content note: brief description of the death of Errol Graham a few years ago)

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/deaths-british-press-reluctant-welfare.php

#UK #government #disability #benefits #media #DisabilityNewsService #JohnPring #ErrolGraham