NJ @ 17:35>Is it this you are referring to
Looks like it to me.
> It concluded that the UK's plan was not sufficient to "cope with the extreme demands of a severe pandemic"
1) in 2016, the UK's plan was not sufficient to cope with the extreme demands of a severe pandemic. It started to do something about it.
> The Inquiry has seen evidence that only eight of the 22 recommendations made after that exercise had been fully addressed by the time Covid hit with work on the other 14, including to prepare the social care sector, still ongoing.
2) By 2020, 14 of 22 recommendations were not completed. But why ...
> Mr Hancock said that some of that work had been paused because of the need to prepare the country for a no-deal Brexit.”
3) so Brexit was prioritised over pandemic preparation.
Conclusion: If there had been no Brexit, more of those pandemic preparations could have been completed, including preparations for the social care sector where lots of people died during the pandemic.