The impact of COVID-19 regulatory restrictions on the lives of nursing home residents and their families in three states. Among those interviewed are workgroup members Liz Weingast and Karen Lipson, public health experts, and several nursing home residents and family members.

The impact of COVID-19 regulatory Liz Weingast and Karen Lipson, supported by the ESBC Long-Term Care Workgroup, argue in the Albany Times Union that the current restrictions on NYS nursing home residents are not consistent with federal recommendations and lack sufficient ethical justification.

The ESBC Long-Term Care Workgroup argues in the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum that current restrictions on visitation and social activity are causing significant harm to nursing home residents, harms not sufficiently accounted for in robustly proportionate response to the risk of COVID-19 infection.