The narrative here is a complex one and it is becoming increasingly difficult to take an objective, critical response without getting abuse. However, as is my usual practice, I shall give it ago.
In 'the early days of spring' the authorities deliberately required infected and untested elderly people to be returned to care homes and what is even worse, denied them therapeutic care. HCQ derived medication has been known to be an effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2 since 2005 and was the treatment recommended by the US Centre for Disease Control. This was the case right up to April when it was, effectively, banned by the CDC with no explanation given.
In the UK HCQ was banned from the outset, with stocks removed from the supply chain. This left the NHS with no treatment for Covid patients bar oxygen and perhaps steroids, which at that time was largely ineffective. It is during that period that many people died, contributing heavily to the excess death rate for 2020.
That all this occurred is indisputable, the question is why did the authorities go down this route. We don't know and probably never will.
Would a different approach have saved lives, would a regime of HCQ+ and selective isolation have been more effective, I suspect that it would, but to put forward this view on a mainstream forum is to attract abuse as a 'Covid-Denier’.