Patients were transferred from hospitals to care homes in all parts of the UK in March and April 2020 to make way for an anticipated influx of Covid patients. In a judicial review of Government policy in England judges concluded that care homes should have been advised to isolate the new arrivals where possible. No such advice was given by health ministers in any of the UK’s four nations at the time. What went wrong? Were politicians to blame for not realising that people could have Covid and pass it on even if they showed no symptoms? Or did the High Court expect more of decision makers than was achievable in the turmoil of the war against Covid? If another deadly virus appears should politicians and medical professionals assume that people can catch it and pass it on without symptoms, until the contrary is proven?
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Patients were transferred from hospitals to care homes in all parts of the UK in March and April 2020 to make way for an anticipated influx of Covid patients. In a judicial review of Government policy in England judges concluded that care homes should have been advised to isolate the new arrivals where possible. No such advice was given by health ministers in any of the UK’s four nations at the time. What went wrong? Were politicians to blame for not realising that people could have Covid and pass it on even if they showed no symptoms? Or did the High Court expect more of decision makers than was achievable in the turmoil of the war against Covid? If another deadly virus appears should politicians and medical professionals assume that people can catch it and pass it on without symptoms, until the contrary is proven?