The new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis reveals a troubling statistic before the holidays for the nursing home community, which has been disproportionately impacted by severe COVID-19 illness and death.

Employees at these facilities who don’t get vaccinated will be required to get tested for COVID-19 weekly.

People still wears masks outside of their apartments, but residents are finally seeing family, cautiously resuming social activities — and reflecting on what it took to weather the pandemic.

Nursing homes are wrestling with another wave of COVID-19 as they eagerly await vaccines for workers and residents.

“This is not just the flu,” Hogan said. “More people have died from COVID19 than from annual car accidents, gun violence, and the flu combined.”

Hogan announced the state is allowing indoor visitation at nursing homes where no new cases have been reported in 14 days, and child care centers can return to full teacher-to-child ratios and capacities.

State and federal requirements mandate regular testing for staff, vendors and contractors — but not inspectors.

Virginia House committee moves forward a bill to require the state health department to publish detailed data on outbreaks.

Inspection reports found that staff at Annandale Healthcare Center weren’t properly socially distancing and a refrigerator repairman cut the coronavirus screening line.

Long-term care facilities will now have to shoulder the costs of weekly testing for their staff.