Deaths soar at Britain's care homes as COVID-19 stalks elderly

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Thousands of care homes across Britain were locked down last month to stop COVID-19 from spreading among their frail and elderly residents. For Jamshad Ali, 87, it came anyway.

Ali and six other residents at Hawthorn Green Care Home in east London died with “symptoms consistent with COVID-19,” with 21 others also possibly infected, said a spokesman for the home.

They’re also calling for more support for a sector whose workers are, like Britain’s National Health Service, fighting the coronavirus up close, but with less pay, training and recognition. A spokesman for Hawthorn Green Care Home said those showing COVID-19 symptoms were looked after “in accordance with strict infection control measures,” and that giving all residents the best care remained “our number one priority.”Reporting delays and lack of testing make the death toll in care homes hard to pinpoint. Over 9% of them had reported cases and the number would continue to rise, said England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty on Tuesday.

She was so worried about her mother that she took her out of Kendal Care Home last week and now looks after her at a family house nearby. She declined to say how many other residents and staff were affected by the disease, saying she didn’t want to “scapegoat” any home or worry residents’ families. Some staff felt well enough to work, she said, but were off sick and self-isolating because they, or someone they lived with, had mild symptoms of what might not even be the new coronavirus.

 

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Stalks them? Dont scaremonger. Just use simple language, we dont need clickbait rhetoric right now

This is how the English deal with baby boomers after they have finished with them ukpol auspol notchina

This is a piss poor headline.

This headline is terrifying. Makes it sound like Coronavirus is a creepy dude outside their house with binoculars.

Same in Germany! 😭 COVIDー19 Covid_19

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