New York reporters Bernard Condon, Jim Mustian and Jennifer Peltz examined how the nation’s nursing home industry is pushing states for protection from lawsuits tied to coronavirus outbreaks that have killed 20,000. The team looked at both sides of the argument for legal immunity and revealed how one well-connected lobbying group even wrote the measure in New York, the nation’s leader in care home deaths. https://bit.ly/2zhWv3a
AP: How nursing homes are pushing for legal protection
A staff member blocks the view as a person is transferred to an ambulance from a nursing facility in Kirkland, Wash., where more than 50 people were sick and being tested for COVID-19 virus, Feb. 29, 2020. AP reports that the nation’s nursing home industry is pushing states for protection from lawsuits tied to coronavirus outbreaks that have killed some 20,000 people.
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