Maintenance workers were sent to hardware stores to buy disposable paint tarps that could be fashioned into gowns. And some residents could not understand why they were suddenly cut off from their families and the world. The chaos was so pervasive that it was nearly impossible, everyone said, to separate what was happening from the politics at play. As caretakers endured day after exhausting day, state officials set forth new regulations to govern how nursing homes should work. And President Trump delivered a drumbeat of dangerous claims — mocking masks, praising unproven treatments, speculating about bleach and about the virus disappearing.

Source: New York Times November 01, 2020 21:50 UTC