UK Government failures leave older people “abandoned to die” in care homes during COVID 19 pandemic

October 21st, 2021 The first wave – it’s not rocket science. First the government sent thousands of elderly and/or vulnerable people from hospital to care homes at the start of lockdown in March 2020 (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/10/uk-older-people-in-care-homes-abandoned-to-die-amid-government-failures-during-covid-19-pandemic/). Given these elderly were in hospital, they MUST have been ill and therefore MUST have needed to be there. But