Listen: Our Deadliest Pandemic Mistake

James Hamblin: Was it inevitable that nursing homes would be hit really hard?

Khazan: Actually, no. I talked to a few examples of nursing homes in other countries. In Hong Kong, there were no nursing-home deaths or even cases, basically because they were freaked out by SARS. They had a really bad SARS outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003.

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