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Between patients’ complex medical needs and their close proximity, COVID continues to pose a grave threat to nursing home residents.

The price is one barrier, and patients who qualify for free doses often don’t realize it or know how to get them.

Millions of Americans are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid, but they can’t afford to hire someone privately.

Many nursing homes will not begin inoculations until well into October or even November.

Proposal would require all facilities to increase staffing up to certain minimum levels, but it includes no money for new hires.

The reduction in COVID-19 cases and deaths was strongest in the period before vaccines became widely available.

Changes will affect nursing home and hospital staffing, delivery of addiction treatment and COVID data reporting.

New laws make it easier for people to see their loved ones in health care facilities during the pandemic.

Many residents in long-term care facilities are suffering from depression and loneliness after months without visitors.

Those in nursing homes and assisted living centers are watching cases rise in long-term care facilities with a sense of dread.

Data suggests that staffers who work in multiple nursing homes are one source of the spread of infections.

Guillermo “Memo” Sanchez is both a marathoner and a disease detective.

Many 5-star nursing homes have infection-control lapses.

Residents are at heightened risk of serious complications from the illness because of the dual threat of age and close living conditions.