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Newsmaker of the Year: Front-line health care workers | News
In 2020, as COVID-19 stormed the shores of the United States, images from the front line arrived: Nurses and doctors speaking into their cellphone cameras at shift’s end, some near tears, others in tears, all begging us to care — or even just acknowledge — the suffering they’d just witnessed. They left their homes before dawn, or …
The Health 202: Nursing homes repeatedly fell short on preventing infections. That’s deadly under covid-19
with Paulina Firozi Nursing homes were already doing a poor job of preventing infections, even before the coronavirus pandemic. Now the virus is tearing through many of them. A new government report finds that nearly half of all nursing homes repeatedly fell short in meeting federal standards to prevent infections between 2013 and 2017. More …
