OpinionNumbers tell one story of COVID-19’s toll on California nursing homes: Some 9,716 nursing home residents and staff died from the virus, amounting to one in eight COVID deaths statewide. Caring for the elderly and people with disabilities in nursing homes isn’t for everybody. And in a nursing home means you are always in a rush – because nursing homes were understaffed long before the pandemic. And that’s why nursing home workers like me have to have a meaningful role in overseeing this industry. Hundreds more rallied at nursing homes across the state with the same message to legislators: nursing homes are in crisis, and California can’t fix them without nursing home workers.

Source: New York Times April 14, 2022 18:56 UTC