Disabled people an ‘afterthought’ for government during COVID

Almost 60% of people whose deaths involved COVID-19 between March and July this year were disabled, UNISON’s Disability Live! online conference heard this week.
In light of those terrible figures, from the Office of National Statistics, speakers agreed that disabled people were an “afterthought” in the government’s approach to the pandemic.
Disability Live! was launched on Monday with a session in which disabled workers from all over the UK joined Labour’s shadow mi