California nursing home workers died of COVID. The industry failed to tell state watchdogs
Sacramento Bee
2/18/2021
Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18—A year into the pandemic, California's workplace safety watchdog still doesn't know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California's health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.