[plain talk]

Third, that they called family members and received their okay to keep the patients at the facility (they told family members that if they wanted to pick up their loved ones they'd be accommodated).

Yes, both sides should present their case and we should have all the facts. As FYI a family member of one who died said they were told the nursing home would be evacuating the patients which clearly didn't happen.

[Conservababe]

Some folks just don't understand long term care in nursing homes. Unless you have a very ill person in one, you might imagine it to be just a lot of elderly persons sitting around and playing bingo.

Nursing homes have very chronically ill residents. They are not called patients in a nursing home, but residents with all the rights afforded them as someone in their own home. And their families have every right to determine their care as if they were in their own home.

Some are on ventilatory support. Some are receiving very controlled IV maintenance of drugs. Some are even locked in special units because of or senile dementia.

Can you imagine throwing these patients on school buses to survive? Evidently some staff stayed with their residents and died.

I might ask why the hospitals were not evacuated, but the State Attorney General expected nursing homes to do so.