Nursing Home Deaths Should Be Obvious Target Of COVID-19 Response

Seems so obvious,  especially here in the Great State of Arizona and the City of Mesa and Maricopa County where most of the clusters are. In addition there are many for-profit privately-owned facilities that might not want the public to know . . . a recent anonymous call exposed more than 15 dead bodies were found inside just one eldercare business

What is non-disclosed to the public: 

Arizona won't say which nursing homes have COVID-19 cases. 

Here's who wants to change that

Arizona has so far not released the number of residents in long-term care facilities who have tested positive for COVID-19 and declined to identify the nursing homes with coronavirus cases.

The lack of information about an especially vulnerable population prompted the state's largest advocacy group for retirees to ask Gov. Doug Ducey on Monday to make the facility names available to the public.

More to the story by Anne Ryman and Caitlin McGlade AZ Central

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Rachel Maddow reports on how Ireland identified long-term care facilities as being the greatest source of COVID-19 deaths and concentrated resources on that problem, and notes that the United States could consider a similar strategy though likely without help from the derelict federal administration. Aired on 04/16/2020.

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•Apr 16, 2020

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