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The nursing-home crisis kept exposing how much Trump missed

April 28 brought more proof that long-term care facilities were one of the darkest failures of the pandemic response. The White House was beginning to talk about seniors more directly, but the scale of the nursing-home disaster made those efforts look belated and defensive.

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First recorded Apr 28, 2020·Meaningfully updated Apr 28, 2020

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The nursing-home crisis kept exposing how much Trump missed

April 28 brought more proof that long-term care facilities were one of the darkest failures of the pandemic response. The White House was beginning to talk about seniors more directly, but the scale of the nursing-home disaster made those efforts look belated and defensive.

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The nursing-home crisis kept exposing how much Trump missed

April 28 brought more proof that long-term care facilities were one of the darkest failures of the pandemic response. The White House was beginning to talk about seniors more directly, but the scale of the nursing-home disaster made those efforts look belated and defensive.

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