RICHMOND, April 14 — Forty-two residents of a Virginia nursing home near Richmond have died from the Covid-19 disease pandemic in one of the worst clusters of the new coronavirus in the United States, and officials expect more deaths to come. At least 127 elderly people out of the 163 residents...
Members of the West Virginia National Guard’s Task Force put on protective clothing before testing residents at an Eastbrook Center nursing home in Charleston, West Virginia April 6, 2020. — US Army National Guard handout via Reuters
“It's been tough,” Wright, 56, said in an interview with Reuters. “We were surprised by how quickly this went through,” he said. But he said the virus has exacerbated an existing staffing shortage, with some staffers refusing to come to work for fear of getting ill.The situation was made even worse by a severe shortage of personal protective equipment such as medical masks and gowns, he said.
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