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It s understandable if you missed it. After all, the bombshell report dropped on New Year s Eve amid a torrent of headlines about surging COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, as well the president s election denial, just days before an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol turned the world on its head.
But the
Washington Post published a devastatingly thorough investigative report on Brius Healthcare, which owns 80 nursing homes in California, including four in Humboldt County, making it the state s largest for-profit nursing home operator. The
Post s story detailed how Brius turns hundreds of millions of dollars in annual Medicare and Medicaid funding to care for elderly or infirm patients into massive profits through the use of so-called related-party transactions, in which its homes pay other companies owned by the same people marked-up fees to provide services. Essentially, Brius owners in addition to taking the company s profits pay themselves through si
As this issue went to press and December and 2020 drew to a close, it seemed clear the COVID-19 case surge officials have long warned of is upon us. The only question remaining is how much worse it will get.
Fueled by what officials described as a perfect storm of pandemic fatigue, holiday get-togethers and the onset of cold weather pushing ill-advised social gatherings indoors, December saw cases spike dramatically on the North Coast, with hospitalizations and deaths following. As the
Journal went to press, the month had already accounted for 47 percent of 1,678 cases confirmed to date throughout the pandemic s first 10 months, as well as 55 percent of COVID-related deaths and 27 percent of hospitalizations. The month also saw the county s test-positivity rate which sits at 3 percent for the duration of the pandemic more than double to 7 percent. And officials remained braced for the spike to worsen in the weeks after the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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