COVID‐19 NHS infection control strategy: Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum

A recent BMJ Editorial (“Getting it right in the pandemic”) has discussed examples of countries that have done better than others in responding to COVID‐19 pandemic and, conversely, those policymakers and health systems that got it wrong. (Loder, 2020) There is little doubt that, when facing a pandemic with a high speed of onset and transmission, “nobody should be surprised that errors were made” (Adebowale et al, 2020) and “what it was done some weeks ago is not what we would do today”.