Risk v. Reward The Dayton Daily News reported on the problems with staffing at Ohio nursing homes. The industry suffers from high nursing home staff turnover. The pandemic has made staffing and turnover worse. Why risk death for minimum wage? Nursing home aides provide the bulk of custodial or direct care. They are heroes on

Trump’s leadership has caused over 200,000 deaths. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, or IHME, at the University of Washington has a new estimate.  They conclude that America may suffer more than 415,000 deaths in the U.S. by January. Tragically, dangerous inefficiencies persist in the federal response, particularly regarding mass testing. We are dependent upon

No Shame at all Trump at his rally Saturday was already using RBG’s death as the source for a new disgusting campaign chant. His fanatical cult followers scream with herd mentality, “Fill that seat!”  Recently, CNN listed some of the Republican Senators’ statements about not giving Merrick Garland a vote in 2016. “In 2016, when conservative

The federal government issued another set of nursing home visitation guidelines. CMS now allows for resuming indoor visits based on community COVID-19 spread. Operators should “accommodate and support” indoor visits as long as no new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days. Outdoor visits remain preferred under the new rules with CMS noting that they

COVAX Global cooperation to develop a vaccine among all countries is extremely important.  The Trump administration will not join a global effort to develop, manufacture and equitably distribute a coronavirus vaccine. This short-sighted political decision will hinder scientific collaboration and advancement. More than 170 countries will participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility (COVAX)

Hindsight is 20/20. I understand that. I hate to be a Monday morning quarterback. But we need to figure out why 200,000 Americans died when the rest of the world contained the virus. The historic neglect and under-funding of our state and local public health system contributed to the weak US response. Many experts offer