A legal shield for nursing homes

Families of people who died in nursing homes during the pandemic are filing lawsuits across the country. But nursing homes are using Trump-era liability protections to fight them. POLITICO’s Susannah Luthi reports. Plus, the U.S. condemns Belarus for forcing down a plane to arrest a dissident. And Sen. Susan Collins says she supports a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection.Susannah Luthi is a health reporter for POLITICO.Jeremy Siegel  is a host for POLITICO Dispatch.Jenny Ament is the senior producer of POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio.Read more: Nursing homes invoke Trump-era protections to fight lawsuits over Covid deaths Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices