Downing St says that he wasn't blaming care homes but “pointing out that nobody knew what the correct procedures were because the extent of asymptomatic transmission was not known at the time”
This is an essential point, because at some point there's going to be an investigation of whether the Government wrongly discharged people who did not show COVID symptoms back into care homes, causing many thousands of premature deaths. Their response, I think, will be that, yes, with hindsight, it would have been better not to have made the transfers, but "the extent of asymptomatic transmission was not known at the time." Hancock began to sow the seeds of this defence in the Marr show on Sunday.
