Are the government neglecting the elderly population?

The outbreak of Covid-19 at the beginning of 2020 has put the entire world at risk, and although figures have decreased massively, we are still ensuring our safety in a bid to avoid corona-virus rates plummeting again.

But the most likely citizens to be found in the high-risk category were and still are the elderly population, however, not disregarding the long list of other high categories here.

According to the Office for National Statistics, nearly 50,000 care home deaths were registered in the 11 weeks up to 22 May 2020 in England and Wales, and here's why:

After the outbreak of Covid-19, 25,000 patients were discharged into care homes without being tested, a report found.

According to the Daily Mail, the Unisontheunion released that at the beginning of May, 3600 reports of inadequate equipment for care homes were received, providing a lack of care for elderly people during the pandemic.

Care homes quickly became vulnerable and according to Labour's MP, an 'afterthought' during the Corona Virus crisis as personal protective equipment (PPE) was scarcely seen.

Last year, Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds had called for a “fuller investigation” into the government’s handling of care homes in the coronavirus crisis as elderly people have been neglected according to reports.

The government continued to face backlash after failing to protect the population of elderly people.

A woman in London protested not only for the neglect of the elderly during the pandemic but even before the ongoing crisis.

Roxana Brivent Barnes protested against the government believing that they allegedly "bribe hospitals to let elderly people die" after her Husbands death in Colchester hospital, after establishing that the hospital had already had claims a patient, 85, hadn't been 'fed or washed' back in 2013.

After her husband, Hugh Brivent-Barnes died in Colchester hospital in 2017, Mrs Brivent-Barnes said: "My life has turned into a nightmare trying to find justice for my husband."

"Your life ends with the help of Opioids, or other ways to weaken your heart and die. That's how my husband died, he was weakened until his blessed heart could not take any further torture."

"Life has become a luxury for only a few, if you are rich, you can seek justice, but if you are just a common person like me or my husband, when you are old, you become a subject to others who make a decision for your life" Roxana Brivent-Barnes finished.

Now, in 2021, according to the CDC older unvaccinated citizens are more likely to be hospitalized or die from covid-19.

"Older adults are more likely to get very sick from COVID-19. Getting very sick means that older adults with COVID-19 might need hospitalization, intensive care, or a ventilator to help them breathe, or they might even die. The risk increases for people in their 50s and increases in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. People 85 and older are the most likely to get very sick," the website states.

According to the BBC, nearly 45.6 million people in the UK have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, which is nearly 87% of the adult population, with older citizens being prioritised first.

Do you think the older population have been neglected throughout this pandemic?