POLITICO Article: Pandemic Invades Nursing Homes Again
POLITICO has published an article, "Pandemic Invades Nursing Homes Again," by Rachel Roubein, a GSA Journalists in Aging Fellow.
The article details the recent increasing spread of the coronavirus in U.S. nursing homes, "Covid-19 cases in nursing homes saw a more than 40 percent increase from mid-September to Oct. 25 after seven weeks of steady decline, according to the most recent data. Nursing home operators and experts on long-term care say it’s basically impossible to keep the coronavirus from seeping in as cases spike in communities across the country...The cases 'in long-term care facilities essentially mirrored what was happening nationally, what was happening in communities around long-term care facilities,' said Priya Chidambaram, a policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation."
This article was written with the support of a Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Journalists Network on Generations Journalists in Aging Fellowship. The John A. Hartford Foundation is one of the Fellowship funders. The article also ran on msn.com and on yahoo.com.
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To learn more about the Journalists in Aging Fellowship, click here.
