Share your reaction to the Covid public inquiry findings on adult social care during the pandemic

People at the National Covid Memorial Wall in central London. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

Heather Hallett, who is leading the Covid-19 inquiry, said the care sector was “an afterthought” during the Covid-19 pandemic and it was a “significant omission” that the government did not advise that patients discharged from hospitals into care homes should be isolated, causing the virus to spread rapidly among residents and staff.

She also said preventing visits to care homes led to “immense emotional harm” for residents and left them with “profound isolation and a sense of abandonment”.