There is a core truth at the heart of the leaked messages: that ministers failed to sufficiently protect elderly and frail care home residents during the early weeks of the pandemic 🔎 Analysis by janemerrick23
was right to publish them, there is a core truth at their heart: the Government failed to sufficiently protect elderly and frail care home residents during the early weeks of the pandemic., when questions were being asked – by this newspaper and others – of the then Health Secretary and senior public health officials such as deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries why care homes were not being routinely tested for covid as virus tore through the elderly population.
Mr Hancock insists that the messages represent only part of what happened, and that they focus only on the presentation of the policy rather than the policy itself. This is key to the government’s defence – which is likely to be given in detailed evidence at Lady Hallett’s inquiry this summer – that no matter how strongly the advice was given by Prof Whitty and other experts, the UK did not have the capacity to carry out mass testing in care homes or anywhere else.
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