“Dear Colleagues,

The PROTECT-CH trial is a national study which will evaluate several different drug treatments to prevent, or reduce the severity of, COVID-19 outbreaks in care home residents.

Although we hope that vaccination will go a long way to preventing further COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes, we don’t yet know how effective vaccines will be in residents.  We also need to have effective treatments that could help reduce the severity of outbreaks if new variants emerge that are not well covered by the vaccine.

We need as many care homes as possible to come forward to support this important work.  To tell you more about the study, we have set up two webinars:

• One on the 25th February at 4pm (unfortunately this date has passed) 
• One on the 2nd March at 1pm

These are targeted at care home owners, managers and staff. We would like you to invite you to attend one of these if:

 You have already signed up to support the study

• You are thinking about signing up to support the study
• You’d simply like to learn more about the study

A simple flyer is attached.  You can sign up for tickets to attend the webinars at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/preventing-covid-19-in-care-homes-the-role-of-drug-therapies-tickets-141603208007 – both webinars will have similar content.  You only need to sign up to attend one.

We look forward to meeting you at the webinars.”