From what I can gather from someone I know who works in a care home the issue is simply that where it’s rife in the local community staff are catching it outside work and taking it into the home before they become symptomatic. She caught it at work last week.
I imagine because full hospitals are releasing still infectious patients back to care homes again.
There's an element of this, but a major problem is infection control in hospitals. Care home residents, as you'd expect, require hospital care more frequently than even their peers.
They go into hospital for a non Covid related reason, catch Covid in hospital, are then discharged back to the care homes.
The care homes themselves are now pretty good at reducing Covid infection. Major problem mow that staff in care homes are refusing vaccination.
Never something I thought I'd say, but I'm with Richard Burgon on one thing:
If care home workers don't get paid when they're sick, they'll go to work to feed their families. That is not a good system to prevent transmission from communities into care homes. The Government should have made sure everyone could afford to self-isolate if symptomatic.
Of course some people would have taken the piss. But paying those pisstakers would have been worth the better outcome.
The issue is more that people can be infectious without symptoms so it's impossible for care homes to ensure that all their staff are covid free on any give day. One carer goes in with it and in the space of a day they've infected several staff and a stack of residents.
What Warwick said. I think the care homes are much better now at isolating people coming back from hospital, the issue is more likely staff coming into work with covid (and who may work in more than one setting).
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lots of people have covid and lots of old people die in winter.
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Are they dying from Covid or just dying because crumbling frail people die in the winter?
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I think they’re being reported as covid deaths
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I imagine because full hospitals are releasing still infectious patients back to care homes again.
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Guy I wonder what the consequences of that action might be.
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It would only take a whiff of the disease in a care home environment - stifling hot, no fresh air, full of old people - for it to spread like wildfire
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From what I can gather from someone I know who works in a care home the issue is simply that where it’s rife in the local community staff are catching it outside work and taking it into the home before they become symptomatic. She caught it at work last week.
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There's an element of this, but a major problem is infection control in hospitals. Care home residents, as you'd expect, require hospital care more frequently than even their peers.
They go into hospital for a non Covid related reason, catch Covid in hospital, are then discharged back to the care homes.
The care homes themselves are now pretty good at reducing Covid infection. Major problem mow that staff in care homes are refusing vaccination.
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If you're very old and catch ill and family are not allowed to visit because of lockdowns, would you really fight the illness with all you've got?
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Never something I thought I'd say, but I'm with Richard Burgon on one thing:
If care home workers don't get paid when they're sick, they'll go to work to feed their families. That is not a good system to prevent transmission from communities into care homes. The Government should have made sure everyone could afford to self-isolate if symptomatic.
Of course some people would have taken the piss. But paying those pisstakers would have been worth the better outcome.
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The issue is more that people can be infectious without symptoms so it's impossible for care homes to ensure that all their staff are covid free on any give day. One carer goes in with it and in the space of a day they've infected several staff and a stack of residents.
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ffas. There you go, then.
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What Warwick said. I think the care homes are much better now at isolating people coming back from hospital, the issue is more likely staff coming into work with covid (and who may work in more than one setting).
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