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Why nursing home aides exposed to COVID-19 aren’t taking sick leave – The Conversation US
Over one-third of America’s COVID-19 deaths have been nursing home residents. Employee policies, particularly for low-paid aides, have sharply raised the risk.
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated Americas nursing homes, but the reasons arent as simple as people might think.
To understand how nursing homes became the source of over one-third of U.S. COVID-19 deaths, you have to look beyond just the vulnerability of the residents and examine how nursing homes pay and manage their employees.
The average nursing aide earns just $14.25 an hour, less than $30,000 a year. Many are women who work at multiple nursing homes to make ends meet. Partly as a result…
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