Why Nursing Homes Are Losing Against COVID-19

“U.S. Coronavirus Deaths in U.S. Nursing, Long-Term Care Facilities Top 10,000” read the headline. Wallstreet Journal published a story about how nursing homes and long-term care facilities seemingly can’t keep COVID-19 from decimating their residents. How can COVID-19 be spreading so aggressively from one nursing home to the other when the residents are all quarantined?

CDC and state public health departments have issued strict orders to nursing homes and long-term care facilities that should have stopped COVID-19 from even entering most nursing…