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show. Hello and welcome to the Spiked podcast I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week we have Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater

Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Wheeling.

Hi. Coming up on the show the COVID crisis in care homes, grooming gangs and the Corona cops.

More than 11,000 people have died in UK care homes during this pandemic.

So right from the start we've tried to throw a protective ring around our

care house. When my father first became ill I was told that a lady had been

discharged back to the care home and she had tested positive for

COVID-19. We brought the lockdown in care homes ahead of the general lockdown.

In Britain more than 11,000 people have died in care homes over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the peak of the outbreak, nearly three times as many people were dying in care homes than in a normal year, though only half of those

deaths have been put down to coronavirus itself. There is a widespread anger that care homes have

been neglected in terms of funding and access to testing and personal protective equipment.

And there's also a great deal of evidence that official advice pushed the crisis

into care homes as patients were discharged from hospital without being tested

for COVID-19.

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