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Radio 4,12 Jul 2025,24 mins

51. How It Spread

The Covid Inquiry Podcast

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The Covid Inquiry continues taking evidence on how Covid 19 spread in care homes, examining the decision-making around rapid release of elderly patients from hospital in March 2020. Evidence is taken from Dame Jenny Harries, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Mary Cridge, Director of Adult Social Care at the Care Quality Commission and Christina McAnea, General Secretary of the trade union Unison. Divya Talwar reports.

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