The Welsh Government may have missed a trick in falling in behind the UK government's plan for an examination of how the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic was handled here. It is not too late to listen to Labour's Chris Evans as he calls for a separate inquiry for Wales. There is already an inquiry being set up in Scotland.
What concerns me is that along with the mistakes that were made by administrators in Wales, very much the same mistakes as were made by NHS trusts and social services in England, the good things done in Wales may be missed by an overall inquiry. For instance, the NHS in Wales, although constricted by UK government procurement policy (the NHS is not totally devolved), managed PPE and tests rather better than England. But most importantly, the success of Ceredigion in holding the virus at bay, a model of what should have been done on the national scale, may be passed over.
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