Dr Richard Penny

Politics academic and Learn with Transitions Officer, University of Southampton

Health & Medicine

COVID-19 can reframe health politics

The response to COVID-19 is a reminder of the huge capacity of states to improve health outcomes and exposes how our acceptance of suffering on the basis of ‘affordability’ costs lives

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