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CDC Asks Nursing Homes To Disclose Coronavirus Cases

After a spike in coronavirus outbreaks in nursing homes across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now calling for all nursing homes to disclose cases to residents and the public.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Lona Mody, a professor of internal medicine, geriatrics and epidemiology at the University of Michigan, about why these centers are so susceptible to the virus.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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