Around 10,000 hospital beds are currently occupied by elderly people owing to a lack of available care workers to look after them at home, NHS leaders have warned.
Senior figures said hospitals were "grinding to a halt" because of a growing crisis in social care, which has left "staggering" numbers of frail and vulnerable people stuck on wards for weeks on end.
Experts said shortages of care home staff - with an estimated loss of around 70,000 such workers in six months - had left hospitals overcrowded, even before winter starts and amid fears the growth of the omicron variant could make things worse.
Comment: Knowing the harm the vaccine mandates are having on patients due to dangerously low care home staffing levels, why doesn't the government and the healthcare bosses reverse the ruling? A report from the House of Lords recently revealed that there was no benefit in mandating vaccines on NHS healthcare staff, so why should it apply to care home staff?
It's likely because the government and NHS bosses are willing to sacrifice elderly patients and victimize their carers, but they know if were they to do the same to NHS the publicity generated by respected staff, and the outcry from the public, might put a halt (however temporary) to their ideological agenda.
Comment: The situation is just as dire over in the US, with some states enforcing vaccine mandates, despite there being no federal law requiring that they do, and, in turn, hospitals are struggling to provide care, with at least one A&E having to shut.
Bucks County Courier Times in the US reports that almost exactly the same issues are occurring in the US: See also: This is completely avoidable" - New York hospitals prepare for staffing crisis as vaccination mandate forces mass firings
And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: NAZI Redux - Covid Camps in Australia, Mandatory Vaccinations in EU