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Saturday, February 20, 2021 | Sacramento, CA
Kim McCoy Wade, director of the California Department of Aging, says the pandemic has made the needs of the state’s rapidly aging population more urgent.
California Department of Aging
By Samantha Young, Kaiser Health News
Even as the pandemic derailed some of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s biggest health care proposals, such as lowering prescription drug costs, it crystallized another: the pressing need to address California’s rapidly aging population.
Already nine months into their work when Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order last March, members of a state task force on aging watched as the coronavirus disproportionately sickened and killed older people, and left many isolated in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and their own homes.