I don't want to go all tinfoil-hat on it, but somebody screwed up. Good Lord, the top administrator of the Gesu Bambino Hospital in Rome actually flew to Liverpool accompanied by two pediatric specialists, and not only wouldn't Alder Hey let them take Alfie to Rome for treatment, they wouldn't even let them see him.
Is that damning or what.
Even if the NHS had done nothing wrong, they were petrified that someone else might find a way to treat him (and Charlie Gard before him, and who knows who else), and they would then face very uncomfortable questions about why they couldn’t/wouldn’t treat him.