Nursing home care
Democrats were on the cusp of transforming paid leave, child care and home care. Now they're figuring out where they came up short — and when they might get the opportunity to try again.
The COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals to already vulnerable nursing homes under the governor's directive, which has since been scrapped.
Watchdogs, patient advocates and lawyers argue that immunity orders are misguided.
In some states, nursing home residents account for more than half of COVID-19 deaths. It doesn't have to be that way.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Neither the federal government nor the leader in nursing home deaths, New York, has mandated testing for all residents and staff.
The true toll among the 1 million mostly frail and elderly people who live in such facilities is likely much higher, experts say.
"As rest homes close their doors, the patients in my father’s dementia ward are locked in their own version of reality."
The city's hospitals are reporting a “huge increase” in nursing home resident admissions as the virus spreads in uniquely vulnerable facilities.
The nation's first coronavirus fatality occurred at a hospital in same Seattle suburb as long-term care facility.
“The room was filled with people who wanted to die."