during delivery, among other issues. The maternity ward never reopened, yet it was desperately needed to provide high-level care. In the surrounding neighborhoods, the infant-mortality rate is more than six times higher than in majority-white parts of the city like Georgetown.
Ellis said she remembered checking city data on positive cases in late April for each neighborhood. The case counts in Wards 7 and 8 looked deceptively low. It turned out, she said, the data said more about the lack of testing than the prevalence of infection. Mayor Bowser, who is Black, planned a far-reaching campaign to find residents most at risk. But her administration didn’t get started on it until six days before the city was set to begin reopening.
Almost at the same time, an emergency solicitation for a contractor who could reach out to the people in most danger was posted by the city’s procurement agency. It was dated Thursday, May 21, and it required all bids to be turned in within essentially one business day. The deadline was Monday, May 25 — Memorial Day — at 2.p.m.
But as Whitman-Walker loses hundreds of thousands of dollars each month, Shafi said she worries about how much longer it can keep its doors open. From the beginning, advocates had warned that the hospital was “simply not prepared” to handle what was ahead. Andrea Procaccino, a staff attorney for Disability Rights DC, said that Covid-19 was only the latest health crisis for the facility. In 2019, the hospital found legionella bacteria in its water supply and had to shut off the flow for 27 days, according to court records.
Everyone continued to watch television together in the lounge, eat in the dining hall and wash their clothes in the laundry room. Dunbar said he was given one mask to re-wear every day, with no instruction on how to use it properly. Procaccino said she was hearing from patients that they felt like they were “on their own.”
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apmreports Shameful. Sadly, it doesn’t look like MayorBowser and her gvmt have learned much from their mistakes that cost so many lives. Cases are on the rise again and yet she’s still not keen to act quickly and decisively. I wonder why...?
apmreports Slow and passive? How about non existent!
apmreports People are just people. There is no need to treat any group of people different because of the color of their skin COVID racist
apmreports They really care!
apmreports Stop the racebaiting
apmreports Maybe if they paint COVID on the streets the virus will calm down and go away
apmreports It wouldn’t be an NPR tweet if they didn’t slip race in somewhere