Massachusetts Justice Dismisses Criminal Charges In Veterans Home COVID-19 Deaths

(November 24, 2021, 2:24 PM EST) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts justice on Nov. 22 dismissed indictments against the former superintendent and medical director of the veterans home for their roles in a COVID-19 outbreak that contributed to the death of at least 76 residents, finding that no evidence was presented to the state grand jury that the five residents named in the indictments suffered bodily injury or neglect as a result of the administrators’ decision to merge two dementia units and that neither administrator was functioning as a “caretaker of an elder.”...