Indeed, one respected group of academics suggests that even that terrible official figure is an underestimate by some 10,000. As if that 20,000 figure was not bad enough, the impact was made far worse by relatives being unable to have physical contact. The trauma is still raw for many of those who lost loved ones in care homes. So when the news of a vaccine first broke, those who had relatives in care homes were especially relieved. Without a vaccine, the nightmare of lockdown would never end; with a vaccine, there was light at the end of the tunnel. Chris Whitty says the vaccine will get us ...