By STEPHANIE BARRY | masslive.com | Published: December 23, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. HOLYOKE, Mass. (Tribune News Service) In March, as coronavirus deaths began to climb and after initial pleas for emergency backup were rebuffed by the state, a clinical team at the Soldier’s Home in Holyoke huddled to come up with a Plan B. Former Chief Nursing Officer Vanessa Lauziere was in the huddle. According to an attorney for Lauziere one of several employees who lost their jobs over the outbreak at the state-run facility for veterans many were hung out to dry as veterans died by the dozens.