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Issue 185
Covid Experiment “Nightmare” in Welsh Care Homes As Unpreparedness Revealed
A social care champion said care homes in Wales felt they were caught up in a nightmare “experiment” when Covid struck in 2020. According to Mary Wimbury, the Covid inquiry had flagged up once again that Wales and the rest of the UK was under prepared to deal with a pandemic. She was speaking after the UK Covid-19 inquiry moved to Cardiff to scrutinise the Welsh government’s handling of the emergency. In the early stages , said Ms Wimbury, protecting the NHS had been treated as
the paramount priority while social care hadn’t been given enough consideration. One of the catastrophic consequences was that admitting untested hospital patients into care homes had in some cases led to the virus spreading rapidly, leading to the deaths of many vulnerable elderly residents.
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