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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Have I misunderstood something?
The papers report that 40% of CV deaths ate in care homes.
There are just over 1200 hospitals in the UK and over 15,000 care homes. Where’s the scandal other than the past PPE neglect?
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The Care Home scandal is just starting to blow up. It seems that one of the number of early mistakes was to transfer COVID-possible patients from hospitals to care homes with minimal mitigation of risk:
https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1260462206883450885
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London doctor continues: “We discharged known, suspected, unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared, with no formal warning that patients were infected, no testing available, no PPE to prevent transmission. We actively seeded this into very population most vulnerable.”
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Seems even the Torygraph has had enough:
Care homes' soaring death rate blamed on 'reckless' order to take back Covid-19 patients
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A Government diktat that NHS hospitals should move hundreds of elderly patients to care homes has been branded “reckless” and blamed for the homes’ soaring coronavirus death rates.
In two damning policy documents published on 19 March and 2 April, officials told NHS hospitals to transfer any patients who no longer required hospital level treatment, and set out a blueprint for care homes to accept patients with Covid-19 or who had not even been tested.
Analysis by the Telegraph suggests that the rate of coronavirus deaths accelerated more than twice as fast in care homes than in hospitals in the week beginning 7 April - two and a half weeks after the first policy document was published.
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