The United Kingdom's Pandemic Influenza Strategy - links to documents

One of the potentially important pieces of background documentation which it is relevant to examine with respect to the failures by Boris Johnson and Chris Whitty to effectively protect the Public Health in the United Kingdom is the UK's Pandemic Influenza Strategy.

This blog post provides links to a number of documents  dating from 2011 and subsequently on the United Kingdom's preparedness (sic) for an Influenza Pandemic.

• 22nd March 2011 - The Scientific Summary of Pandemic Influenza and its Mitigation: Scientific Summary of Pandemic Influenza & its Mitigation  
• 10th November 2011 - UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011: UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 
• 13th August 2014 - Pandemic Influenza Strategic Framework: Pandemic Influenza Strategic Framework  
• 13th August 2014 - Pandemic Influenza Response Plan 2014: Pandemic Influenza Response Plan 2014  
• 2017 Exercise Cygnus Report - The version currently publicly available links from an article in the Guardian on 7th May 2020: Revealed: the secret report that gave ministers warning of care home coronavirus crisis   The document as published by the Guardian is slightly redacted. Its content is not limited to issues which relate to care homes.

One or more future blog posts will examine the interpretation of these documents and what relevance they may have to the United Kingdom's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the failures of that response.