Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine has moved her mother out of a nursing home, raising questions on whether having a close relative move out of the type of facility that is within the health secretary’s area of oversight sends the wrong message while COVID-19 sweeps through nursing homes, killing elderly residents.
It comes as some 70 percent of the state’s COVID-19 deaths occurred in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, an unsettling situation that state authorities have sought to address by issuing new guidance (pdf), which centers on expanded testing.
