March 3, 2021 New Orleans Nursing homes have been a flashpoint during the pandemic as death rates for residents and staff have been tragic and appalling. The situation was seen as so critical that vaccines were prioritized for the homes, where now the struggle is getting sufficient staff to participate, even as families have …
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Save Lives? Give Healthcare Workers Raises
New Orleans Hey, bosses of healthcare workers, listen up! Yo, consumers and families of healthcare services, pay attention to this, like your life is at stake, since for more than half of you over 65, it is, because you will end up in long-term care. Policy peeps and political hacks, heads up: pay attention …
Some Changes the Coronavirus Should Bring
Pearl River In the Age of Trump and the Time of the Coronavirus, there seems to be constant speculation about what changes in our society, habits, and government might be permanent given our collective experience. Much of this is hyperbole. One pundit argued that he went “to sleep in America and woke up in democratic …
Frontline Care Workers Are Undervalued
New Orleans In the “time of the virus,” I talked to Jackie Dartz, a member of the Local 100 United Labor Unions executive board and longtime steward at LARC, the Lafayette Association of Retarded Citizens, about direct care workers that were at the frontlines about their preparations for the covid-19 pandemic on Wade’s World. …
Coronavirus Policy and Financial Failures Put Nursing Home Workers at Risk
New Orleans Is the coronavirus a pandemic and economic catastrophe or a hiccup along the road to progress as the President promises? Who knows? What already seems clear is that for all of the talk about China not being ready for this, it also seems that America has our pants down around our ankles …