CGTN published this video item, entitled “Finding True America: The ‘forgotten’ seniors” – below is their description.
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Citing “an urgent need to expand hospital capacity,” New York State issued a blanket policy in 2020 that required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients. However, due to the shortage of medical staff and resources, nursing homes often fail to separate patients from elderly residents who remain highly vulnerable to the virus. Alexa Rivera lost her mother, Ana Martinez, to COVID-19 at a nursing home. Overwhelmed by grief, she blamed the government and the nursing home’s negligence for her mother’s passing. There’re many stories like this in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over one million Americans have died from COVID-19. Among those cold numbers, about 15% of them are seniors in nursing homes.
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