{"id":145890,"date":"2020-05-28T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/28\/the-scandal-of-covid-19-in-care-homes\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T02:00:18","slug":"the-scandal-of-covid-19-in-care-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=145890","title":{"rendered":"The scandal of Covid-19 in care homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did so many people die in care homes? That may be the most urgent question of the likely public inquiry into the UK\u2019s Covid-19 response. Rob Booth, the Guardian\u2019s social affairs correspondent, on the government failures that led to thousands of care home deathsWhy did so many people die in care homes? That may be the most urgent question of the likely public inquiry into the UK\u2019s Covid-19 response. So far, 16,000 residents of care and nursing homes have died compared with fewer than 3,000 in Germany and none in Hong Kong. The Guardian\u2019s social affairs correspondent, Rob Booth, tells Anushka Asthana that despite the health secretary, Matt Hancock, claiming the government \u201cthrew a protective ring\u201d around care homes, government failures have led to thousands of deaths. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2020\/may\/28\/the-scandal-of-covid-19-in-care-homes\" target=\"_blank\">The scandal of Covid-19 in care homes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did so many people die in care homes? That may be the most urgent question of the likely public inquiry into the UK\u2019s Covid-19 response. Rob Booth, the Guardian\u2019s social affairs correspondent, on the government failures that led to thousands of care home deathsWhy did so many people die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}