The longest shift: Nursing home staff go home after 65-day isolation stops coronavirus spread

NEWARK — It was shaping up to be another quiet evening at The Inn at SharonBrooke, as it had been for months. In the absence of visitors and the usual shift changes, comings and goings were infrequent, the parking lot gaping with empty spaces. But now a small group of people began arriving in twos and threes, making conversation at arm’s length or greater as they converged on the circular driveway that led up to the facility’s entrance. Shortly…