Linda Mayberry felt local officials weren't doing enough to protect nursing home residents from Covid-19 and knew many like her didn't have the ability to speak out. So she began tweeting dispatches from inside her room, hoping someone would see them.
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Her nursing home, she realized, was owned by the same company struggling to curtail a rising death toll in Kirkland, Washington. Mayberry began to dread what would happen if coronavirus swept through her building. Soon after this discovery, her facility in Bellflower, California, instituted a lockdown in March, barring all visitors to try to keep the disease out. Mayberry spent her days alone in her room.
— Linda May 22, 2020 The first positive case had been confirmed well into the facility's lockdown so Mayberry was convinced that a staff member had unknowingly brought it to the facility. And as they went room to room treating patients like her, she worried they continued to spread it.
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