For your sweet dumb brain: This was preventable
“There are millions of us living this nightmare.”
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My friend and former colleague, Kat Kinsman, inspired Tuesday’s essay about the COVID-19 death toll. On August 7, her mother died in the COVID unit of the nursing home where she lived. Kat had to say…