Show Notes
'An afterthought' – that is the damning description of how Government treated care homes during the pandemic, according to a coruscating report from the independent Covid 19 Inquiry.
Alex and Kenny lift the bonnet on the report's disturbing findings with Quiet Riot favourite Christina Pagel, UCL Professor of Operational Research and co-founding member of Independent Sage.
From Government incompetence to the ordeal faced by care home workers, via the countless individual tragedies as Covid turned care homes into death traps, the report makes for distressing but essential reading. But what has changed, and what should change?
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