Have you not read my post? A nurse, familiar with infection control, could not stop Covid spreading through her nursing home, partly because she couldn’t get proper PPE or testing. It’s no good you stating care home owners were at fault, because they only had to do proper infection control, when the evidence is there to say, it didn’t.
DD lived in a care home, with onsite doctors and nurses, who implemented all the infection controls and isolation. It is a charity, so nobody makes any money from running it - they only charge local authorities or the NHS the cost of the placement.
DD1 was at home for her birthday, when lockdown was announced in March 2020. She wasn’t allowed back for 6 months, because of limited testing capacity.
Anyone going to live in a house had to isolate 14 days in a different flat, before admission. On her return after 6 months, DD had to isolate for 14 days in a flat, with her own staff. 1:1 staffing is the default care there, and they weren’t using agency staff - they have their own bank staff. A resident testing with Covid was isolated in their bedroom for 10 days, and all staff going in to care for them had to wear a surgical mask, apron and gloves. The staff had to wear work uniforms and surgical masks anyway. Visitors were not allowed in the house. They could only see a resident for half an hour, after testing negative, behind a Perspex screen and wearing the PPE as above in the visitors centre.
They didn’t take patients from hospitals, unless it was one of their own residents, because it’s a specialist condition specific centre - and even then, any resident who went to hospital for even an outpatient appointment had to self isolate in a different flat on their return for 14 days, before going back to the house, where they lived normally.
DD1 still caught COVID, as did other residents on her house, I believe because staff wore surgical masks and the holes are so big, they let the virus through.
I heard the nursing home owner talk about the pressure she was put under to take patients from hospitals. She provided emails from officialdom, and her responses to them in her evidence. She said, she was the owner and she could make her own decisions (and as a nurse, she had greater knowledge than most); but she could see how managers could have given in to the pressure.