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EMTs move a resident of Cobble Hill Health
Center in Brooklyn.
Gabriella Bass
An article in Nowhere Magazine
That made me shudder. |
If they are honest, historians judging the
American experience during the coronavirus pandemic will excoriate our
barbaric failure to protect the elderly. We think of ourselves as
civilized, but mindless policies and bureaucratic indifference turned
many nursing homes and rehabilitation centers into killing fields.
At least 28,000 residents and workers in long-term care facilities already have died from the virus, according to a New York Times analysis
done more than a week ago. That represented one out of every three
COVID-19 deaths recorded in the United States at the time and was likely
an undercount because of reporting lags and varying state
methods..........
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