I'm wondering what experience MNers in the UK are having with family members in care homes receiving the vaccine.
Living outside care homes I have a 80-yr old relative in Reading that has already received both jabs & 78-yr old relative in Gloucester that has just received their first jab.
Here in Surrey, the care home still can't give a date for when they're getting the jabs.
I realise that the vaccination roll out is pretty much a postcode/local health authority affair & bringing vaccinations into a home is a logistical nightmare but have other homes in the UK already had both residents & carers vaccinated?
I was under the impression they were at the top of the queue as vulnerable.
I'm slightly concerned that care homes might be hung out to dry again.
There has been talk of releasing care home residents from hospitals without a Covid test - of sending them to a 'hot' home, of which there are depressingly few, for quarantine.
A doctor friend has hinted that they are concentrating on vaccinating those that are more likely to require hospital treatment ie those not in a home.
He has insinuated that an elderly person living in a home, upon contracting the virus, will not be given hospital treatment anyway so better to use their vaccination dose on someone that will eg my relatives in Reading & Gloucester.
A sort of 'sacrifice' for the greater good. The same ethos as sending untested hospital patients back to their care homes so that the beds are 'better used' for other patients regardless of the the knock-on effects to the care homes....