Judith Graham is a contributing columnist for Kaiser Health News. She has written for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Stat, the Washington Post and the Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for a Denver Post series on defective pacemakers.
The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of COVID-19 to date, accounting for three of every four Americans who have perished in the pandemic. But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven’t […]
