Covid cases were linked to patients moving from hospitals to care homes, Government report admits

Discharging hospital patients back into care homes was an ‘important source' of infection, government experts have admitted, as new figures show that more than half of care homes have had a confirmed case of Covid-19. A paper by the Care Homes Sub group which was submitted to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) on May 12th, warned that the new disease cases were linked to the connection between care homes and hospitals. The huge numbers of deaths in care homes is thought to be the reason the government underestimated how many people would die from the virus, with Professor Neil Ferguson recently telling MPs he had assumed residents would be shielded when modelling the pandemic. A separate report, released in a new tranche of government papers on Thursday showed that Sage believed there would be at most 50,000 UK deaths in the first wave of the pandemic up to September. But that figure was passed at the beginning of June.

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