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Nursing homes invoke Trump-era protections to fight lawsuits over Covid deaths As they try to fend off scores of lawsuits, nursing homes are seeking legal cover from liability protections extended by Congress and the Trump administration. Dozens of these nursing homes facing wrongful death lawsuits, which often tally millions of dollars, are urging judges to move the litigation from state courts to federal courts, where they can invoke the new federal liability protections and potentially avoi...

No masks, no infection control: Investigations confirm whistleblower accounts of botched evacuation from coronavirus epicentre, concluding it greatly increased risk of spread in US.

Two federal reports obtained by The Washington Post highlight a whistleblower’s account of the chaos as US officials scrambled to greet nearly 200 evacuees from Wuhan at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, Calif., on the early morning of Jan. 29, 2020.

Published 29 January 2021 Federal officials at a California military base last year who met with the first American evacuees from Wuhan, China, the place where the coronavirus emerged, were not prepared for their mission, according to a new report. Federal officials at a California military base last year who met with the first American evacuees from Wuhan, China, the place where the coronavirus emerged, were not prepared for their mission, according to the Washington Post.    They did not...

Updated Jan 29, 2021 U.S. Fear Of Bad Optics Boosted Virus Risk In Wuhan Evacuation: Report Health workers with no infection-control training or protective gear dealt with 200 Americans evacuated from Wuhan after the initial coronavirus outbreak. The Trump administration’s scorn for the “bad optics” of protective health gear heightened the risk of spreading COVID-19 after American evacuees landed in California from China following the outbreak of the coronavirus there, The Washington Post...

Trump Health Secretary Rule Slows COVID Court Claims Against Nursing Homes January 28, 2021 Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother’s death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An unexpected legal hurdle stands in her way. The nursing home argues it has complete legal immunity for lawsuits like Robertson’s stemming from COVID-19. It cites recent change...

At the urging of nursing homes, a law is amended and COVID court claims are slowed Reuters 1/28/2021 By Tom Hals © Reuters/GARNICE ROBERTSON Garnice Robertson poses with her mother Georgia Mae Clardy at a nursing facility in Kansas City By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mothers death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An unexpected legal hurdle...