What it’s like to work in long-term care during the pandemic

The worst day of a COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care is the first day.  There are tears.  How did it get in?  How did we fail?  How do we tell the families? When does the media show up? There is shame, tremendous shame.  Shame that we put on ourselves and that the outside world puts on us.

Then the shame turns to fear.  Where is it?  Who …

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