The State reported on South Carolina’s record nursing home deaths during the pandemic. As a nursing home neglect lawyer, I have seen poor care in South Carolina’s nursing homes for decades. The pandemic made it worse. A new AARP report concludes nursing homes in my home state has more deaths among nursing home vulnerable adults.
Point of Care Tests Another catastrophe. The Trump administration expanded cheap testing in long-term care settings sending thousands of point-of-care testing systems to nursing homes. The goal was to allow facilities to quickly detect new Covid-19 cases among residents and staff. The effort to arm nursing homes with rapid coronavirus tests is failing because the tests
CANDIDA AURIS The New York Times had an article about A deadly fungus in nursing homes. Candida auris is a highly contagious, drug-resistant deadly fungus. It has infected nearly 800 people in the last four years, with half of patients dying within 90 days. C. auris is a germ so virulent and hard to eradicate that
Priorities Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan declared that nursing home residents and staff members will receive the vaccine first. The Baltimore Sun reported Hogan spoke at the headquarters for vaccine developer Novavax Inc. Of course, the safety group has yet to vote on who gets priority. However, it makes sense to prioritize the most vulnerable
Leadership Olivia Troye recently left the White House coronavirus task force. For years, Troye worked for VP Pence as a special adviser. She left Trump’s White House in disgust. NPR’s Ari Shapiro interviewed her. She provided unsurprising revelations of incompetence and political interference. Trump consistently tells Americans “the complete opposite” of what experts tell him
A Republican-led Senate has not approved a Democratic-chosen Supreme Court nominee since 1888. There have only been 14 justices confirmed during election years in the past. None were confirmed after July before an election. The People should choose. In March 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tried to justify denying a vote on Judge Merrick Garland: “All