State Health Department Blasted Over Nursing Home Oversight
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Shlomo Rechnitz Nursing Home Suit Over COVID Deaths Reflects Broken State Licensing
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Posted By Jocelyn Wiener on Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 12:33 PM An effort to fix problems with the oversight of California’s nursing homes has stalled, sparking fears that the bill is doomed and prompting elder care advocates to warn that even a delay jeopardizes residents’ safety. “I’m incredibly frustrated,” said Democratic Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi of Los Angeles, author of Assembly Bill 1502. “The pandemic has clearly exposed the horrible conditions of so many of our nursing homes. “People are dying as we wait….We cannot sit around with a broken state oversight system while our most vulnerable residents continue to live in these nursing homes.”
And it is. But not for the reasons most initially feared.
Due to vigilance and some luck, the virus variant s spread was limited to a single assisted living facility, meaning it never entered the broader community, where its tendrils of transmission could have webbed. Instead, it was kept isolated and is believed to have died out, relegated to a blip in virus history. But the variant is also now one blip among many that combine to present a growing body of evidence that COVID-19 continues to mutate, to change, looking for ways, as viruses do, to become more infectious and effective, which in turn raises questions about the long-term effectiveness of vaccinations.