Nearly 70 dead in ‘horrific’ outbreak at US veterans home

Nearly 70 residents sickened with the coronavirus have died at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans. | AP

The home’s superintendent, who’s been placed on administrative leave, has defended his response and accused state officials of falsely claiming they were unaware of the scope of the problem there.

Because staffing was so tight, workers from one unit were constantly moving to other units to help out — and bringing their germs with them, she said. At one point, a unit was shut down because there wasn’t enough staff to operate it, and those veterans were moved into close quarters in other parts of the building, she said.

“Every day I would ask different people, ‘What’s going on in there?’ And I would never get information,” she said. The death toll at the home appears to be the largest at a long-term care facility in the United States, experts said.

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