It seemed quite clear at the time that the decision to force (untested) people out of hospitals and into care homes was a decision made because the government wanted hospital capacity freed up, & considered the lives of care home residents a reasonable price to pay for genpop capacity.

Not a nice decision. And one that could have been avoided entirely if the gov hadn’t botched pandemic preparedness, and then prevaricated to the point of disaster when a pandemic actually arrived.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A group of 30 families are suing the UK government, care homes and hospitals over the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the Covid pandemic.

Emma Jones, the partner leading the case, said: “You cannot underestimate the impact the tragic loss of life, losing a loved one in such harrowing circumstances, has had on our clients.

The legal action argues that the state failed to protect them by not publishing procedures or policies to be applied by care homes and hospitals.

It will particularly focus on the decision in March 2020 to discharge hospital patients into care homes rapidly without testing or requiring them to isolate.

Beatrice Morgan, a solicitor, said: “Our clients believe that the guidance issued by the health secretary in the early weeks of the pandemic led to thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Many feel strongly that rather than trying to protect older people during that time, the guidance put their loved ones at an avoidable risk of harm.”

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