Covid 19 How It Really Was In Foster Care As The Government Was Found Guilty Of Breaking The Law In The Early Stages Of The Pandemic Uk News

It was Easter weekend in April 2020 and a clear blue sky and a warm breeze masked the fact that the nation was in a lockdown. A new disease called COVID-19 was spreading fast. Cameraman Andy and I were getting ready to enter a nursing home that was in the hands of this virus. I did not know it at the time, but what would I see that set the tone for a year-long investigation into how COVID killed thousands of nursing home residents. That weekend, we saw staff struggling to find the right personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, gloves and aprons. This was partly due to the fact that there was a global movement of PPE and the government was frantically trying to procure supplies from where it could. But there were other reasons, which were not obvious at that time. However, it was clear to me that the caregivers and nursing staff did not have enough of this equipment. I walked down the hallway and saw elderly patients in their beds. A man was struggling to breathe and the staff were trying to make him comfortable. Another man named John begged staff to let him go home. “I want to get out of here,” he said. The nurse did everything she could to reassure him, saying that as soon as he recovered from COVID he could go home. Unfortunately, John died two days later. Read more: The government broke the law when it sent patients to nursing homes without COVID testing, says Matt Hancock, “we worked as hard as we could to protect caregivers.” Image: Sky News correspondent Nick Martin in a care home in April 2020 Resources for care homes were promised Months earlier, nursing homes had been issued with instructions on how to respond to COVID. This guide was written by the most dissolved Public Health (PHE) in England and formed the basis of many of the first decisions made by politicians and civil servants. In February, PHE said the risk to care homes was low and even suggested that the masks were not necessary. In March, the guidance told caregivers to continue normally. But as infection rates began to rise, new guidance in April put care homes at the center of the fight against COVID. They were asked to pick up elderly patients from hospitals so that beds could be made available in the event of the NHS flooding. In return, they assured them that they would receive all the resources they needed to fight the virus. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:51 The daughter’s grief over death in the care home Unfortunately, this is where it starts to go wrong. In fact, we know that doctors told us not to test elderly patients before sending them to nursing homes – the fear was that a positive test would delay discharge, which meant hospitals could not free up space in bed. Thus, the elderly patients were sent to care homes without examination. This meant that no one had any idea who had COVID and who did not. The nurses, with their weak PPE, had no chance. The virus spread like wildfire. The staff was too inadequately equipped to stop it. The elderly are too weak to counterattack. It was as if the fox had entered the coop. Picture: Care staff could not get enough PPE or tests An unexpected government was found to have broken the law Care homeowners were desperate for a test to find out who had COVID. But this kind of testing would take months to develop and even then not everyone was eligible. All of this was played out in front of me that weekend. It was by no means an isolated event – it was repeated more or less in the country. We now know that the government violated the law by expelling untested patients to hospitals in nursing homes during the early stages of the pandemic. It is a fact that does not surprise or comfort all those families living in pain of not knowing if their loved ones could have survived if more had been done to protect them.

title: “Covid 19 How It Really Was In Foster Care As The Government Was Found Guilty Of Breaking The Law In The Early Stages Of The Pandemic Uk News Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-26” author: “Joanna Seiersen”

It was Easter weekend in April 2020 and a clear blue sky and a warm breeze masked the fact that the nation was in a lockdown. A new disease called COVID-19 was spreading fast. Cameraman Andy and I were getting ready to enter a nursing home that was in the hands of this virus. I did not know it at the time, but what would I see that set the tone for a year-long investigation into how COVID killed thousands of nursing home residents. That weekend, we saw staff struggling to find the right personal protective equipment (PPE), such as masks, gloves and aprons. This was partly due to the fact that there was a global movement of PPE and the government was frantically trying to procure supplies from where it could. But there were other reasons, which were not obvious at that time. However, it was clear to me that the caregivers and nursing staff did not have enough of this equipment. I walked down the hallway and saw elderly patients in their beds. A man was struggling to breathe and the staff were trying to make him comfortable. Another man named John begged staff to let him go home. “I want to get out of here,” he said. The nurse did everything she could to reassure him, saying that as soon as he recovered from COVID he could go home. Unfortunately, John died two days later. Read more: The government broke the law when it sent patients to nursing homes without COVID testing, says Matt Hancock, “we worked as hard as we could to protect caregivers.” Image: Sky News correspondent Nick Martin in a care home in April 2020 Resources for care homes were promised Months earlier, nursing homes had been issued with instructions on how to respond to COVID. This guide was written by the most dissolved Public Health (PHE) in England and formed the basis of many of the first decisions made by politicians and civil servants. In February, PHE said the risk to care homes was low and even suggested that the masks were not necessary. In March, the guidance told caregivers to continue normally. But as infection rates began to rise, new guidance in April put care homes at the center of the fight against COVID. They were asked to pick up elderly patients from hospitals so that beds could be made available in the event of the NHS flooding. In return, they assured them that they would receive all the resources they needed to fight the virus. Use the Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:51 The daughter’s grief over death in the care home Unfortunately, this is where it starts to go wrong. In fact, we know that doctors told us not to test elderly patients before sending them to nursing homes – the fear was that a positive test would delay discharge, which meant hospitals could not free up space in bed. Thus, the elderly patients were sent to care homes without examination. This meant that no one had any idea who had COVID and who did not. The nurses, with their weak PPE, had no chance. The virus spread like wildfire. The staff was too inadequately equipped to stop it. The elderly are too weak to counterattack. It was as if the fox had entered the coop. Picture: Care staff could not get enough PPE or tests An unexpected government was found to have broken the law Care homeowners were desperate for a test to find out who had COVID. But this kind of testing would take months to develop and even then not everyone was eligible. All of this was played out in front of me that weekend. It was by no means an isolated event – it was repeated more or less in the country. We now know that the government violated the law by expelling untested patients to hospitals in nursing homes during the early stages of the pandemic. It is a fact that does not surprise or comfort all those families living in pain of not knowing if their loved ones could have survived if more had been done to protect them.