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Dying of neglect: the other Covid care home scandal

Poorly funded and understaffed, care homes were destined to fail

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

6 June 2020

9:00 AM

Officially, more than 44,000 deaths in England and Wales have involved Covid-19. But how many have died as a direct result of the disease itself and how many are victims of the fear and neglect that it has engendered?

It is remarkable how many deaths during this pandemic have occurred in care homes.

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Professor Carl Heneghan is director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, where Professor Tom Jefferson is a senior research fellow.

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