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On Saturday, Jeanette Hinkle of the Metrowest Daily News covered the severe situation of PPE shortages, agency staffing concerns, who their first covid patient was, and how it spread through their facility.

See her story, “Nurses working at multiple health-care facilities, hospitals transferring COVID-19-positive patients to long-term care facilities where people most vulnerable to the disease live and a lack of PPE and testing are fueling the state’s coronavirus death toll.”

This story should validate our reporting of the same circumstances.

Approximately a month ago we first covered the severe PPE shortages with the story below.

On April 19th, we learned about the PPE that was given to staff. The certification not at US standards, a single mask that each staff had to sign for in reciept of. We also covered the agency staff who due to low pay had to work many facilities and therefore at risk of being vectors for the disease:

The same day we learned about the Newton Wellesley Hospital patient who was believed to be their “patient zero”:

Finally, just 4 days ago we covered the possibility that St. Patricks may have had deaths, that had gone unreported. Additionally we covered the PPE that had been assigned lacking quality and disintegrating on staff. This story was our most revealing and we received extreme blowback from readers for reporting thing that “were blatant lies”:

Even in the last 24 hours, we have received more tips on this facility. There are still concerns. Families of patients are concerned. Patients are concerned, and staffers are concerned: