Families of Veterans Who Died of Covid Win $53 Million Legal Settlement
“It was among the country’s deadliest coronavirus outbreaks: One in every three residents of a New Jersey nursing home for frail military veterans died as the virus raced unchecked through the state-run facility. The 101 residents who died in the first eight months of the pandemic included both,” reports Tracey Tully in The New York Times.
“Regina Costantino Discenza’s parents, who had been living at the complex, Menlo Park Veterans Memorial Home in Edison, N.J., for about two years when the virus began ravaging long-term care centers throughout the Northeast. Three days after her father died, her mother tested positive for the virus. Now, in a sober acknowledgment.”
