Niamh Griffin: What good is our Covid-19 outrage if people are still left behind? 

More than three times as many people died in nursing homes as in hospitals in the third wave, and meat plant worker infection rates are twice that of the next sector 
A year into the pandemic, issues are still rife in nursing homes and meat plants, months after they were identified. 

A year into the pandemic, issues are still rife in nursing homes and meat plants, months after they were identified. 

Were you outraged when nursing home deaths spiked last year? Were you shocked at conditions for meat plant workers? And did you think our collective outrage solved those problems?

Unfortunately, like many things in this pandemic, statistics tell another story.

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