R. Tamara Konetzka

health economist at the University of Chicago

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Nearly 300,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19, and 40% of them were living and working in nursing homes.

COVID has been devastating nursing homes. Can it change how the US thinks of end-of-life care?

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