Safeguarding the Elderly
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Professor Carl Thompson of the University of Leeds (UK) on the use of contract tracing wearables in the most severely affected environment of all: nursing homes. Working in two UK nursing homes with Microshare’s Universal Contact Tracing (UTC) wearables, the team led by Dr. Thompson discovered powerful risk mitigation capabilities – including the ability to manage the spread of COVID-19. The £1.6m trial has been funded by the UK’s National Institute of Health Research and is run by Leeds’s School of Healthcare, School of Engineering and Institute of Clinical Trials Research, in partnership with the University of Nottingham, data strategy company Microshare Inc, care home providers and local authority public health bodies. It comes after infection rates of up to 80% and as many as 30,000 deaths were reported in care homes in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.