Skilled Nursing News February 24, 2021
One of the most frustrating parts about covering the disaster in long-term care over the past year has been seeing the incredibly complex system failure of COVID distilled into news stories, Twitter broadsides, and press releases with decidedly simpler narratives.
Whether you’re a novelist or a journalist, good storytelling requires a hero and a villain, and nobody has time during a global pandemic to tuck into the voluminous tale of a once-in-a-lifetime storm crashing into a nursing home landscape with endemic problems stretching back generations.
So instead we get something like the Andrew Cuomo drama, where suddenly in the public mind he alone is personally responsible for the deaths of 15,000 people that were sent to New York nursing facilities...
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