A study has found that the COVID vaccine mandate in English care homes led to fewer staff but may not have reduced resident deaths.
A report has looked into the effects of the 2021 COVID vaccine mandate for staff in elderly care homes in England and has found that the only major causal effect was a reduction in the number of unvaccinated care workers.
COVID-19 vaccinations were made compulsory for all staff working in care homes in England from Nov. 11, 2021.
At the time it was warned such a policy for care workers would cause unknown staff shortages. However, the government said that there were to be “unquantified benefits” from the mandate, which it believed were “fairly substantial and long-lasting.”…