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September 4, 2020

Sent Home to Die

In New Orleans, hospitals sent patients infected with the coronavirus into hospice facilities or back to their families to die at home, in some cases discontinuing treatment even as relatives begged them to keep trying.

Annie Waldman, Joshua Kaplan ProPublica Aug 2020 30min Permalink