the head of amnesty international, kate allen, she said this of the record of the government on careerly and vulnerable in the uk community. she said, "the government has made a series of shockingly irresponsible decisions which effectively abandoned care home residents to die. discharged without being tested, thousands of older people were sent to care homes at great risk to themselves, to other residents, and to staff. the appalling death toll was entirely avoidable. it is a scandal of monumental proportions." where is the accountability for what happened in the care homes? well, i think the government is being held to account by my select committee, but by people like kate allen, by the media. and it is very clear that there were lots of things done in other countries that we should have done here and we didn't. for example, in germany, care homes weren't allowed to receive patients from hospitals unless they could quarantine them for two weeks or, indeed, unless they were tested. in hong kong, they sealed off care homes and that meant that they didn't have a single coronavirus de