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“We have embedded the video twice.  Firstly, to begin at the timestamp where Atkinson talked about the “just-in-case” drugs.  Secondly, at the timestamp when he spoke about treatments that should have been used, but weren’t.  You can read an unedited transcript of the discussion HERE.

On the presumption that there would be covid outbreaks in several care homes, just before the first lockdown, in early March 2020, guidelines were issued to put “just-in-case” drugs in place, Atkinson told Doc Malik. The “just in case drugs” consist of morphine, midazolam and other sedatives.

“Lots of things changed nationally in early March: the death certification rules were changed, the cremation rules were changed and the NICE guidelines,” he said. “