"too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures"

Well the Chinese were telling the WHO that the virus wasn't transmittable human to human. Guess I'm a knobhead for pointing that out!

The WHO were repeating the mantra of test, test, test in early February. We did nothing for 6 weeks after that other than literally wash our hands of taking any responsibility

Johnson has now adopted Hancock's excuse of "we didn't know about asymptomatic infections." Wrong:

On 2 April, A UK Govt document said: "negative [coronavirus] tests are not required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home". But it added that even patients who tested positive could be admitted!
 
Well well well

Care Home Mortality---
England-----21%
Wales--------25%
Germany----37%
Sweden-------45%
Scotland--- 48%
France--------50%
Belgium-------51%
Norway--------61%
Spain---------66%

Source Reuters



That report was from the beginning of May.
Here is a report based on a paper released more recently;

 
An interesting article from the telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...d-britains-covid-care-home-crisis-isnt-think/ (disable javascript to bypass paywall).

So what about the NHS then seeding the virus into care homes? If so we’d see a sudden boom in infections, but this didn’t happen................ The full horror took weeks to emerge, in Britain and across Europe. For reasons that no one expected or (then) understood, the number of care homes with Covid present was small at first then grew rapidly over lockdown. Something else was going on.

It has been the same, awful story everywhere.....................care homes look after three per cent of Britain’s elderly population but accounted for 41 per cent of our Covid deaths. Similar ratios can be found in Spain, France, Denmark, Israel and Portugal.

most of Europe is now asking what went wrong in care homes – and moving to a similar conclusion. It took ages to realise how many people are barely affected by Covid, carrying (and spreading) the virus without knowing it.
 
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