Even inside nursing homes -- deemed a ground zero for the spread of coronavirus -- health care workers still don't have enough personal protective gear and the facilities can't get testing done quickly enough to effectively fight the virus.
At one of the largest nursing home chains in the United States, 45,000-bed Genesis Healthcare, the shortages of protective gowns for workers and the lack of quick testing has forced it to play catch-up to a rampaging infection rate, even while other needed supplies have become more accessible in the past few weeks."This is not a problem that by any stretch is remotely over," Genesis Healthcare CEO George Hager Jr. said last week.
Government response While the Trump administration has promised a greater effort to help nursing homes, states like Maryland and Virginia have put in place special response teams.More than half of Virginia's coronavirus outbreaks have stemmed from long-term care facilities, according to state health department data. About 15% of the state's 300 deaths have been reported from just from one facility, Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Richmond, per health officials.
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