Trump to send $5B to nursing homes for COVID-19 help

The Trump administration announced Friday it will send nearly $5 billion to help nursing homes respond to COVID-19, which has already killed thousands of individuals in those facilities throughout the U.S since February.The funding distributed to nursing homes by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can be used to increase testing capacity, purchase protective equipment for staff, hire more workers and cover other pandemic-related…