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Matt Hancock (Former UK HHS Secretary) defends moving Hospital patients to Care Homes in Covid crisis
The Guardian ^ | July 2 | The Guardian

Posted on 07/02/2025 10:28:30 AM PDT by RandFan

Discharging untested patients from hospitals to care homes during the Covid crisis was the “least worst decision”, the former health secretary Matt Hancock has told a public inquiry.

In his testimony to the UK Covid-19 inquiry on Wednesday, Hancock defended the decision – which was later ruled illegal in a high court judgment – to move hospital patients into care homes during the early weeks of the pandemic to free up space.

“Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,” he said. “I still can’t see a decision that would have been less bad. None of the options were good. It was the least worst decision that could have been taken at the time. While I wish there had been a better option, I still can’t find one.

“The likelihood of things being worse if people had stayed in hospital was very high.”

Nicola Brook, a solicitor representing more than 7,000 people from Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK, said Hancock’s words were “an insult to the memory of each and every person who died”.

“He knew at the time that many care homes did not have the ability to isolate the people who would be discharged from hospital and that Covid was airborne,” she said. “It’s frankly ridiculous and insulting that he says they tried to throw a protective ring around care homes when his department’s policies caused Covid to spread like wildfire amongst society’s most vulnerable loved ones.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: covid19; nursinghomes; pandemic; rehabs
Sound familiar ?

Hancock is accused of intentionally "culling" seniors.

What a POS...

1 posted on 07/02/2025 10:28:30 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: All

Basically “culling” they say on the news...

It’s KILLING...

Let us call it what it is and put them on trial — To hang .


2 posted on 07/02/2025 10:32:35 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

COVID Pitch Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwpWpuIk_E


3 posted on 07/02/2025 10:59:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: RandFan

Here in the US Pres. Trump has CMS change its Medicare regs to allow residential care facilities the ability to refuse to take back sick patients.

He did that in mid March of 2020.

In May, Cuomo in NYS ordered them sent back anyway.

The facilities submitted.

Why did Cuomo order it?

Why did facilities submit?


4 posted on 07/02/2025 11:01:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: RandFan

Even in the old days doctors knew to isolate smallpox patients from non-smallpox patients.


5 posted on 07/02/2025 11:03:03 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: RandFan

UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people
May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg


6 posted on 07/02/2025 11:03:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: RandFan

The Nazis called them useless eaters. A term that has come back into use by the Left.


7 posted on 07/02/2025 11:05:23 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: RandFan

Had to get those death rates up to support the mRNA propaganda.


8 posted on 07/02/2025 11:13:10 AM PDT by PAR35
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And don’t forget the money part of that whole fiasco. A lot of bad people made tons of money from every death


9 posted on 07/02/2025 1:27:40 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: RandFan

Just the inner Cuomo mass murderer in him.


10 posted on 07/02/2025 2:36:42 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: RandFan

Boris Johnson and his entire cabinet should be hanging from lampposts by their broken necks. But that’s just my outdated sense of justice.


11 posted on 07/02/2025 4:51:41 PM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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