Systemic Short-Staffing NPR had a fantastic article about the nursing home industry’s pleas for additional bailout money. We cannot continue to allow the waste, fraud, and abuse. Nursing homes were unprepared and overwhelmed by the coronavirus. Recent studies show that for-profit owners recklessly endangered residents by cutting corners while siphoning taxpayer money to owner/operators, related
Threats to Fauci Future President Joe Biden wants top infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci to play a leading role in his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Incredibly, Trump adviser Stephen Bannon called for Fauci’s beheading. Bannon caused outrage when he said that he wanted to put Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray’s “heads on pikes.”
DHEC Dashboard DHEC created a dashboard that shows the visitation status of nursing homes and assisted living facilities along with which places have active and non-active outbreak status. Conway Manor is on the active outbreak list. DHEC’s definition of an active outbreak is when one or more cases by a resident and/or staff exists within
Death Threats Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is a Republican. Raffensperger is a well-respected Republican in Georgia. However, fellow Republicans continue to pressure him. Trump’s henchmen want him to commit voter fraud. They want him to throw out legal ballots to reverse the election for Trump. “It doesn’t matter what political party or which
Last week, Pfizer reported 90 percent effectiveness for their vaccine. This week, Moderna reported preliminary data on another successful vaccine that offers hope. Both use a synthetic version of coronavirus genetic material. This genetic material are messenger RNA or mRNA. They program a person’s cells to produce copies of the virus which alarms the immune
Test Results JAMA Internal Medicine published a research letter showing that nursing homes fail to provide quick effective tests for COVID. The vast majority of test result turnaround times at nursing homes take substantially longer than the 24 hours recommended. This includes residents and staff. The 24 hour period is needed for effective infection control. The
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