Nursing Home Patients Sue Pennsylvania for Covid-19 Exposure (1)

A group of residents is claiming a Pennsylvania long-term care facility is conducting unauthorized medical experiments on its residents in its attempts to treat Covid-19.

The claims are part of a Tuesday lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Health over polices and practices that allegedly are allowing Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, to run rampant through the facilities.

Health department inspections of these facilities “have come nearly to a halt,” thereby endangering the facilities’ already medically fragile and disabled residents, a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania says.

The department’s failure ...