Nursing Homes:The Overshadowed and Undervalued Aspects of Covid-19 By:Abdul Hadi Kamran

Abstract

Abstract

Every 100 years, some sort of infectious disease devastates the world.  In 1720, we had the Plague, in 1817, Cholera, in 1918, the Spanish Flu, and now in 2020, we have the Coronavirus.  The disease, having been first discovered in Wuhan, China, soon took the world by storm as more and more people fell ill to the contagious disease.  Due to how new and unique the disease was, everyone was vulnerable to it.  However, certain demographics were at a higher risk of being fatally affected by the disease.  This being the elderly and young children.  At the start of the pandemic, the entire world was focused on hospitals, how to quarantine patients, where to separately keep them, etc.  The type of facility with the highest percentage or the elderly, however, are not in fact hospitals.  The type of facility with the highest percentage of elderly is Nursing Homes, who were treated extremely differently to hospitals during the early portion of the pandemic.  The goals of this project were to assess the mentality of those who were held responsible for the lives of those most at risk, and whether or not they believe they were given adequate support during the pandemic.