“Texas’ state-run veterans homes had more than double the death rate among COVID-19- infected residents compared with other nursing homes in the state. Seven of the homes had a fatality rate of 25% or more – far higher than the statewide average – 11% – among Texas nursing homes. Approximately 23% of the state veterans homes nationwide are overseen by outside management companies, but in Texas all nine of them are, and they account for a quarter of the privately run homes in the United States. Resident advocates say for-profit nursing homes tend to have lower staffing levels and perform worse than nonprofit and government-run facilities.”

“Average staffing levels in Texas nursing homes are among the lowest nationwide. Five of Texas’ veterans homes fell beneath the state average. On July 8, one day after the Tribune and the Chronicle shared their analysis with the agency, Land Commissioner George P. Bush decided to end the relationship with the two for-profit operators of the homes and asked his staff to conduct a nationwide search to find replacements” reports the Texas Tribune on their in-depth investigation in partnership with the Houston Chronicle on the veterans’ nursing homes.

Let’s see how much the MAGA trolls want to talk about this after they’ve spent over a year acting like the only place COVID-19 was real and the only place anyone ever died from it was inside of nursing homes within New York State. Andrew Cuomo is a freaking dirtbag and kind of an autocrat, but that terrible nursing home death toll in 2020 was not on him, that was on Trump.