"Doctor-priest: Elderly die in U.K. nursing homes while hospital beds empty"

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Why is anybody surprised?

Once upon a time, you would get sick, go to the hospital, they would heal you and convalesce you and then send you home.

Nowadays, a hospital is a place to stabilize your vital signs then kick you out the door to convalesce as well as you can manage in a house, rehab or nursing home.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
Nowadays, a hospital is a place to stabilize your vital signs then kick you out the door to convalesce as well as you can manage in a house, rehab or nursing home
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Would that were even being carried out now.
As the article states " Guidance published April 2 by the Department of Health also advised the National Health Service to transfer elderly COVID patients from their own homes into nursing homes rather than allow them in a hospital for treatment.

Letters shown by families to British media show doctors have encouraged some elderly and critically ill people to sign forms to say they do not wish to be either resuscitated or taken to a hospital if their conditions deteriorated. Some letters indicated their self-sacrificial actions would protect the state-funded health service."

Only a few days ago, I was told of a local undertaker ( a man who arranges funerals in the UK) who normally conducts two or very occasionally three cases per week from the general community, has been conducting five or more each week for the last few weeks involving elderly residents who have died at care homes alone. This matter is a national disgrace, but it is where the “culture of death” leads. Incidentally, I have also heard that New York City seems to be having many more deaths from within the Care Home sector than is normal at the moment.
 
Although TBF, nursing home residents tend to be more frail to begin with with many comorbidites.
They just don’t have the reserves to fight off colds and flus and respiratory ailments that younger people have
 
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