Mick Harper
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In its wisdom, government moved the old (and presumably ill) from hospital beds to care homes, with disastrous results. In addition, the old were cut-off from their families and treatment was withheld.
As I remember it this was not what happened. The government discharged people on an accelerated basis presuming they were not ill to care homes. The mistake was in fact that they did not test these patients for Covid, before discharge, and also did not ensure these former hospital patients would be isolated from other care home residents on arrival. |
This chimes with how I remember it. My mother had been in a distant care home and my life was mildly nightmarish having to visit her. I took an interest because I was trying to work out how it would all have affected me if she hadn't died... er... just in time.
| The problem was that many people already within care homes had existing condtions that would render them more at risk if they were to catch COVID, and it was later thought that a number of these new arrivals of hospital patients would have caught COVID during their time in hospital. The policy was later changed so all hospital discharge cases had to be tested for COVID before leaving, and care homes had to keep hospital discharge cases isolated, whether testing positive or not, from other residents for, I think, 14 days. |
This too bears the hallmark of my own recollection. At this stage of the pandemic there had not been time for 'camps' to have formed. Either within orthodoxy or between orthodoxy and crazies. I don't doubt there were policy disagreements going on but not of the 'Are we really sure what we're doing is the right thing, let's have a standing committee of outsiders to explore radical alternatives' kind.
There was no time for that!
There never is.
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