Covid-19: The visitor that shouldn’t have come to Irish nursing homes
WHILE HEALTH AUTHORITIES PREPARED HOSPITALS AND OTHER SECTORS FOR COVID-19, THE VIRUS WAS SILENTLY SPREADING THROUGH NURSING HOMES. HOW WAS IRELAND ‘CAUGHT OFF GUARD’? Sitting in her bedroom in St Mary’s Hospital nursing home in the Phoenix Park in Dublin, Rose Hegarty was listening to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s March 12th speech announcing the closure of…