Britain’s long-running inquiry into nurse Lucy Letby’s crimes landed Tuesday with a stark finding: some babies might have survived if the hospital had acted sooner. The government-ordered review, led by Justice Kathryn Thirlwall, concluded there was “a complete failure to protect babies” at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit, where Letby was convicted of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill seven more in 2015 and 2016, reports the New York Times. Staff, the report said, did not grasp that safeguarding measures should be triggered as soon as a colleague is suspected of deliberate harm, not just once guilt
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