EDITORIAL: Alameda County stonewalling on COVID nursing home records
Jan. 23—Nearly a year into the pandemic,
A judge has told the county to stop blocking access to the data and hiding behind bogus claims that federal patient privacy laws prevent disclosure. Yet county attorneys continue to drag their feet, threatening to appeal rather than comply with the order.
At issue is information about the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus at senior care homes, such as skilled nursing facilities and residential care facilities. Some data is available from the state, but even that information is incomplete.
From the sketchy state data, it appears that senior facilities account for about 5% of coronavirus cases in
And policymakers and regulators should be scouring this data to understand the magnitude of the outbreak and identify facilities that fail to take proper COVID precautions.
But
It's a ridiculous argument. As
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