Carl Hennigan

you've got a huge problem because suddenly you've got 60, 100 people at high risk because of the density problem.

Because if we don't sort it, we won't have learned the lessons.

And that will be hugely disappointing because these people matter.

And they matter because one day we'll all be there.

We'll all be somebody elderly.

And I hope when that happens, we will have thought about how important it is to have a caring society for the most vulnerable.

This is the point which I think has to be now hit home, is why have we decided to forget about this population for so long?

And why do we put so little resources in there?

whether it's the people, whether it's the PPE, whether it's a primary care, and I am conflicted because I am a GP here at this point, but I've watched it erode.

Not just now, it's been happening.

This has been coming in for year on year on year.

So we are paying the consequences of that lack of investment and thought about a very important aspect of healthcare and social care.

So what we're seeing is all of the things that we've been talking about, competing interest and conflicts, that's distorting some of the research agendas.

All of the waste that we've done, the over-diagnosis, the too much medicine, all of that money we've spent in the wrong areas is now coming home to roost.

Adding to that our growing burgeon of non-communicable diseases.

We're more obese.

We're more inactive.

We're not fit enough to fight some of these viruses, some of us.

including myself, I'm starting to think really seriously about how fit you have to be as you get into the at-risk category to be able to go beyond respiratory viruses that come back year on year on year.

So all of the things that we've been discussing for the last year and a half on this programme are intensified at this current time.