COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Care homes use a lot of different staff,agency nurses and carers going around different homes,add that to age and state of the residents, they are sitting targets,they had normal amounts of PPE ,everyone in the world wanted ppe,the gov was supposed to helping them but they ended up having to out bid them for supplies,to shift blame into them is a cunts trick

On testing,it was promised,it wasn't delivered,some were given appts for hundreds of miles away
Totally agree with you on the testing. In Scotland (who had and have dreadful stats at the start with 60% or so of care homes with infections) they sent test teams to homes. Only recently in England do we in England have pop-up local test centres.
PPE was an issue in some places till the 3rd week in May but it no longer is and over 1/2 the rise is after sufficient PPE was available.
As to blaming the large commercial companies being a c*nts trick, If they get everything they want to deal with the issue and still cant get a grip then they should stop blaming the government as they'll eventually RIGHTLY get it coming back their way. They're happy enough to charge an arm and a leg for care in the good times - time to accept a lot of the blame themselves. Small private homes have delivered without anything like the number of issues.
 
New cases back up too - to 581.

Though week on week its down from 689.

567 of those 581 are from England.

I would say all in all there are continuing small signs we are not heading out of this quite yet.

Tomorrow will be a key day. Last week numbers went up to 176 with even more catch up deaths in hospital and outside.
155 deaths on one of the worst two days in a week is a major improvement.
As to new cases rising from a smaller number of tests. I await to see what happens tomorrow and what the Test and Trace report says.
 
the huge majority of care beds are private, and over 90% of homes are private (for-profit and charities). They are run independently yes but are still governed and inspected by the CQC. Do not be tempted to say independent/private = bad, but also there are terrible problems with underpaid and/or unqualified staff, neglect and abuse and terrible costs/profiteering. Dunno about the PPE sorry
The workers there are covered by Health and Safety Regulations like Hospital workers.
Not so the patients.

The Government was aware of the risk within the hotels for the old and vulnerable but did nothing extra to protect them relying totally on existing.procedures which failed miserably.
 
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