"We discovered too many care homes didn't really follow the procedures in the way they could have."
There has been a lot of comments about what Boris said about how COVID19 spread through care homes. Later a No 10 spokesman insisted Johnson was not blaming care homes, saying they “have done a brilliant job under very difficult circumstances”. He added: “The PM was pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were because the extent of asymptomatic transmission was not known at the time.”
People have commented about how the comments that Boris made were wrong and that he was wrong to blame care homes. And the government have not apologised but have deflected the comments.
But Boris was right.
Care homes didn’t follow the procedures in the way that they could have.
And that was because of a lack of PPE.
Exercise Cygnus, in 2017 reported on the importance of PPE.
Despite this, the amount of PPE available when COVID19 spread across the UK was far short of what the nation needed.
But do not take my word for this. A study at the UEA has shown this.
If care homes had enough PPE, an issue identified in 2017, procedures would have been followed.
