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27 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The meltdown at the Bakersfield nursing home provides an intimate look at a catastrophe that replayed over and over in major nursing home chains throughout California.

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No place has been hit harder by the pandemic than skilled nursing homes — and no frontline workers have been hit harder than the caregivers who staff them. In California facilities alone, COVID-19 has taken more than 8,200 lives.

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As the virus ran rampant at one facility after another, the low-wage nurses and certified nursing assistants, or CNAs, were fighting the deadliest battle in the state while all but invisible to the outside world.

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Few of the caregivers have dared speak out about the emotional and physical nightmare they were going through — much less about management bent on maintaining profits and cutting corners as things spun out of control.

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Denied critical information and protective gear they needed to avoid infection, they risked their lives as they were pilloried in the news and social media for killing the people they were paid to care for.

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Ultimately 104 residents got sick, along with 87 employees.

“What happened at Kingston is unforgivable,” said Arnulfo De La Cruz, executive vice president of SEIU 2015.

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