The pandemic has ravaged nursing homes across the country, with deaths in these facilities accounting for the majority of deaths in the U.S. Nearly 19,000 positive cases of coronavirus have been in the Black community in Maryland, and those elderly residents are part of the most vulnerable population.
But one nursing home in Maryland is making headlines as it has not had one single positive case since the pandemic began.
The Maryland Baptist Aged Home in West Baltimore, the oldest African American-owned and operated nursing home facility in the state, is a small facility with almost 70 residents and staff.
The home’s director and pastor of First Mount Calvary Baptist Church, Reverend Doctor Derrick Dewitt, attributes their success to implementing safety measures early in the pandemic, even before the president, the state’s governor or the Centers For Disease Control put restrictions into place.
According to a new federal intelligence report, the U.S. is ‘likely’ to see shortage of pharmaceutical drugs if coronavirus outbreak continues.
