The total number of care homes on the Isle of Wight reporting coronavirus cases has risen to 28.
Nearly 40% of care, residential and nursing homes on the Island are reporting suspected or confirmed cases and symptoms, as of 18th May.
More than a third of care homes on the Island, 28, out of 75, have identified themselves with the virus — a rise of 2 on the previous week.
In figures published by Public Health England, the first cases confirmed in a care home on the Island happened in the week beginning 30th March and have been steadily rising.
Other data from NHS England show the number of people who have died from Covid-19 in St Mary’s has now reached 38. In care homes, 22 people have died from the illness.
Latest infection figures on the Island show 196 people have had the virus, and either recovered, still got the disease or died in the pandemic.
Flawed policy. ALL care homes should have outside help and medical staff dedicated to just two or three homes.
Otherwise people who cut their nails, and treat other afflictions are just spreading this CV from home to home, even if the care worker doesn’t catch it themselves by observing good cleanliness.
it is impossible to be totally virus free as you leave on infected person and drive on to the next home.
Clothing from tiny bits of saliva, etc cannot be totally laundered from home to home.
So by limiting the amount of homes per person, then infection rates could be easier to limit.
The elderly SHOULD be safer in a home.
Imagine the OUTCRY if ordinary homes were now 40% infected
And that is with most elderly in homes too afraid or too law abiding to break lock down rules, unlike the rest of society.
So ‘clearly’ it must be outside workers bringing the virus in accidently.
Too late now I guess to do much good.
The Genie is out of the bottle, and won’t be going back anytime soon now.
care homes were totally neglected at the beginning and this is a national disgrace Not all care home residents are frail or even elderly but I,m,o have been treated as second class citizens . Many care homes were abandoned at the start of the outbreak and even some reported having to google for advice .Yes I have personal reasons to be worried
Here is the second cummings of the virus.
Very distressing and worrying for relatives who can not visit family members, I know the staff in all these homes work tiredessly to support their residents and reassure relatives but despite all the systems in place to prevent covid 19 getting into these homes it is almost impossible to be 100% in preventing it. Residents have to go to hospital if they are actually unwell staff do all they can out of work to stay infection free but are not helped by the mindless actions of the minority in the community who chose to ignore regulations they are simply selfish and do not give a dam about others, and certainly the 8 word comment on here is far from helpful.
Nurses and Carers in our homes keep up the good work you are doing great!!
How many Covid 19 patients were moved into care homes on the Island?
I suspect we will never know They may not have had symptoms or may have had symptoms and not been tested but there was an unseemly haste to free up beds thoughout the UK . Elderly care home residents were discharged back to care homes that struggled to cope and found it difficult to source PPE .And then residents very often refused hospital admissions if they became very unwell not neccesarily here on the island Ias I dont know what the policy was here but I have seen care home managers almost in tears on tv reports .A disgrace.
The government totally overlooked the vulnerability of care homes, it’s a disgrace. OK this virus has spread to pandemic proportions but why in God’s name did the powers that run our country miss the opportunity to protect our care homes? The PPE situation is also a disgrace with some carers having to buy their own because their employers did not provide any because they were not given any! Then, patients were discharged from At Mary’s Hospital to free up beds, understandidly, but we’re not tested for COVID before being moved into the care homes. OMG!
People when moved into care homes, if they still own a house must sell to pay the fees.
People without any funds get it paid for by the council/government so i am lead to believe.
Could it have been a calculated risk that the DC/BJ took?
Could it have been a financial option that they took?
Could it have been a completely missed chance to test people when they should have been?
I suppose we will never find out as they appear to be closing access to documents and refusing to give truthful answers or just ignoring to give answers.
Care homes are a major part of the Island’s economy and we have the opportunity to really lead in this sector, one that is overdue for a major change throughout the country. I hope the Council can think forward to using this unfotunate experience to work closely with the NHS, private providers and the Care services to come up with an improved service