THE claim by Donald Macaskill from Scottish Care that older people with dementia were responsible for the Covid death rates in nursing homes ("Death rates higher in larger care homes", The Herald, May 27) represents a new low in the private care industry's attempts to deflect responsibility from the disaster that happened last year. Large care homes are typically built in wings or as separate "units". If these had been properly managed, outbreaks should have been no different to smaller homes. A 120-place care home, divided into four 30-bed units, should have had the same infection rates as a 30-place home, while a 60-place home divided in three, the same as a 20-place home.