As coronavirus ravaged nursing homes, inspectors were not being tested.
Dolan J, Mejia B. As coronavirus ravaged nursing homes, inspectors were not being tested. Los Angeles Times. 2020;July 24.
Worker safety has ramifications for patient care in both routine and crisis situations. This story highlights a testing gap that has the potential to degrade efforts to minimize the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes: the lack of coronavirus testing of inspectors visiting the facilities to assess infection prevention readiness.