A poorly regulated industry, chronic understaffing, and inadequate infection control combined for an inevitable public health catastrophe
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Linda Maynard sounded upbeat in a voicemail to her daughter on 21 March, joking about her fried chicken cravings and threatening to go “on strike” until she got fast food. There were no signs coronavirus had entered the nursing home facility in Hayward, California, where she was living.
Seven days later, the 74-year-old woman suffocated to death from Covid-19, and by mid-April, the virus had also killed two of her friends at the facility.
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