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This ruling lays down a marker for future government responses to health emergencies

The government's failure to protect elderly and vulnerable residents inside care homes is the single biggest scandal of the UK response to the pandemic. Tens of thousands of our most at risk community were left exposed to a killer virus that we knew would target them first. The government says it had to take action to protect the NHS and increase capacity so it would not be overwhelmed by the emerging global health crisis.

But, and this is important, when concerns were voiced about discharging patients who might be carrying the virus into these care homes, those warnings were dismissed. We were told repeatedly by the government that it had thrown a "ring of steel" around these care homes. We know now that happened far too late. Tens of thousands of these vulnerable residents died as a result of the government's unlawful action.

We carried out our own investigation to find out what had happened during the spring of 2020. We sent Freedom Of Information requests to 143 NHS Trusts. Of these 59 responded. We learned 6435 people were discharged from hospital into a care home between 19 March and 15 April. Two thirds of these patients (4210) did not have a COVID-19 test during their stay or at discharge. Of those who were tested 623 were positive. NHS Trusts confirmed to Sky that there were patients who were discharged with a positive test result.

The High Court judgement is the first time the government has been held to account for its handling of the pandemic. It comes ahead of any inquiry. It brings a sense of justice to the two women who took the government to court. Dr Cathy Gardener lost her father Michael and Fay Harris' father Don died of COVID while living as residents in a care home. It will bring comfort to tens of thousands of grieving families who have demanded answers from the government. It also puts down a marker for future government responses to emerging health emergencies. There is also now the very really possibility of compensation claims.

Dr Cathy Gardener told me right after the judgment was handed down that she wants and apology from the prime minister and she wants him to resign. She has always insisted government policy was responsible for Michael's death. The High Court agrees.

A new survey released this week has concluded that nearly 75% of young adults across the country agree that "the United States has a mental health crisis."

The results, released by The Hill this week, were compiled by the Institute for Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. The survey found that only 6% of people who responded to the survey disagreed with "the idea that the U.S. is undergoing a mental health crisis."

The survey queried "more than 2,000 U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 29 from March 15-20".

52% of young adults who responded reported "experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness", while about 25% of respondents admitted to thinking about self-harm.

In what may be an allusion to the pandemic and lockdowns starting to wind down (unless you live in China), the latter number is down 4% from a year prior, when 28% of respondents said they thought about self-harm.

More than 25% of respondents said they knew someone who had committed suicide.

Similar studies have shown that almost half of all young adults experienced mental health symptoms in the second year of the pandemic, The Hill wrote. These findings came as the result of a second study, when researchers at UCSF ""used a sample of 2,809 adults ages 18-25 years from the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey data to evaluate the scope of anxiety and depression symptoms from June through early July 2021".

48% of those young adults reported mental health symptoms and 39% said they used prescription medications.

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