Why Do So Many Nursing Home Residents Die?

Nancy Peckenham
Crow’s Feet
3 min readApr 17, 2020

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Fifteen years ago the experts warned that seniors needed to be protected in the inevitable next pandemic

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An outbreak of Covid in a nursing home should come as no surprise.

Improving care for the elderly and the infirmed in these long-term care facilities was never at the top of the federal government’s list.

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Nancy Peckenham
Crow’s Feet

Journalist, editor, mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, adventurer, history-lover. Editor of Crow’s Feet