Statement of the Center for Medicare Advocacy in Hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on the topic of "A National Tragedy: COVID-19 in the Nation’s Nursing Homes”
"...Study after study documents that facilities without sufficient nursing staff have both more cases of COVID-19 and more deaths from the virus..." ( Association of Nursing Home Ratings on Health Inspections, Quality of Care, and Nurse Staffing With COVID-19 Cases. JAMA 2020.)