Nursing Homes
"This really does smell," said one former Civil Rights Division official who worries the Justice Department is weaponizing its power for political purposes.
Cases and deaths are up, facilities are short on tests, protective gear and staff.
The state only counts residents who died on nursing home property and not those who were transported to hospitals and died there.
The facility in Billings now accounts for almost a quarter of the state's confirmed coronavirus deaths.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
“What has been supplied has been a joke, to put it kindly," one recipient said of the items meant to prevent COVID-19's spread.
Congress messed up and essential workers, who don't have sick leave, are paying with their lives.
Watchdogs, patient advocates and lawyers argue that immunity orders are misguided.
At least 16,000 dead, shortages of gear and workers — and it doesn't have to be this way.
John Michael Rathburn is accused of placing a gas canister outside the assisted living facility and trying to ignite it, the FBI says.
“I wouldn’t want anybody else," Bob Shellard said of his wife, Nancy, who currently resides in a nursing home.