The grim crisis in Europe's care homes

The report linked to be low is sobering reading.  Part of the problem is expressed.

"BBC" wrote: Relatives express anger at the lack of information about the outbreaks, while workers explain that already insufficient staffing levels and a lack of protective clothing quickly lead to a state of collapse as carers come down with the virus and have to self-isolate.

A further problem in understanding the out break is that most of these deaths in care homes have not been tested for and therefore are not counted as being due to the Coronavirus.  The report stated that France is working on a way to include these deaths in the official statistics so expect a huge jump in recorded deaths soon.  

Link to BBC report

I wonder how many other countries have this problem of not testing in care homes and so are under reporting the effect of the SARS-CoV2 virus.

Over here, they are not even counting care home deaths in the covid figures.  

The poor dead there are not even tested.  Our government is failing them quite dramatically.  We also have no PPE for most care home staff.

I voted for our government, I am ashamed for that.

I think we'd be in the same position who ever was running the country.  You can't suddenly magic PPE equipment out of nowhere, there simply isn't enough to go around and that's going to be the case pretty much everywhere on the planet from China to Europe to the USA.  I agree though that governments could and should have done more to prepare for this and important lessons will have to be learnt.

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/03-03-2020-shortage-of-personal-protective-equipment-endangering-health-workers-worldwide

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/27/21194402/coronavirus-masks-n95-respirators-personal-protective-equipment-ppe