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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 avoid massive payouts. | AP Photo/John Minchillo Link Copied Nursing homes are increasingly seeking to s...

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 wear masks and had “no virus prevention plan or infection-control training” when they met with ...

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 reported Thursday. The government’s mishandling of the 200 evacuees increased the risk of infec...