“False-negative tests let COVID-19 into rural Colorado hospital’s long-term care unit.”

Nina Kohn, the David M. Levy Professor of Law and faculty director of online education in the College of Law, was quoted in The Denver Post story “False-negative tests let COVID-19 into rural Colorado hospital’s long-term care unit.” Kohn, an expert on elder law, believes that COVID 19 outbreaks in nursing homes could be avoided if there was more full-time staff not working at multiple facilities, which  a common trend in the caregiving industry.  Kohn says that “nursing homes are very susceptible to COVID-19,” but she does not believe that outbreaks of the virus should be seen as inevitable and instead they can be prevented.