Opinion
Caregivers demand a role in fixing nursing homes
A caregiver walks with her patient down a nursing home corridor. (Photo: GagliardiPhotography, via Shutterstock)OPINION: Numbers tell one story of COVID-19’s toll on California nursing homes: Some 9,716 nursing home residents and staff died from the virus, amounting to one in eight COVID deaths statewide. But there’s another story that can’t be told in numbers. It’s the story of what it was like to work in the pandemic’s most dangerous conditions: the stress, the fear, the heartbreak.
