As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, nursing homes and long-term care facilities have been among the most dangerous outbreak hotspots. Older adults living in these facilities face far greater risks of being infected by and dying from the new coronavirus. In the United States alone, long-term care facilities account for 9 percent of the country’s COVID-19 cases and a shocking 42 percent of related deaths. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has assisted the elderly in nursing homes in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, and France. We are now applying a similar model to our work in the US.

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Thursday, July 23

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Join us this Thursday, July 23, for a conversation with two aid workers helping to address this ongoing crisis: Heather Pagano, MSF emergency coordinator in Michigan, where the team is running COVID-19 health education and infection prevention trainings for staff in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, and Luis Encinas, MSF medical advisor for our response to the pandemic in Spain and Portugal. In this next episode of our discussion series Let’s talk COVID-19, we'll respond to your questions about the devastating impacts of the coronavirus on the elderly, what can be done to protect vulnerable people in long-term care facilities, and how to support the essential workers who care for them.

This week our guest host will be Dr. Wendy Lai, emergency physician and president of MSF Canada.

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