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Why nursing home aides exposed to COVID-19 aren’t taking sick leave

  • Written by Shefali Milczarek-Desai, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Workers' Rights Clinic, UA James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
imageNursing home aides have protested working conditions that can push them to work while sick.Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday via Getty Images

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated America’s nursing homes, but the reasons aren’t as simple as people might think.

To understand how nursing homes became the source of over one-third of U.S....

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