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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
How would you lockdown a care home? Consider that staff have to be able to enter the care home to look after residents. Relaxing the lockdown creates greater risk of staff contracting the virus, if they're asymptomatic they go to work they then transmit the virus to potential multiple residents. what happens if those residents then go to hospital? potential asymptomatic or symptomatic transmission would run rife.
What you are proposing would basically bring the NHS to it's knees.
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I work in the healthcare sector and most care homes are in lockdown and have been for considerable time, when the countrywide lockdown was removed, care homes were not, relative visits were heavily restricted, they had to phone prior to a visit to book a visiting slot of half n hour and visits were confined to communal gardens, the relative had to be alone and they are not allowed to hug or touch their relative.
Now there are local lockdowns all over the place, care homes have gone in to full lock downs again, no visitors at all. Obviously homes cannot shut down to the staff, someone has to look after the residents.
Staff have to wear facemasks throughout their shift, any resident displaying symptoms is temperature checked, put in to isolation and tested.
Care staff are tested weekly, all positive cases follow isolation procedures.