'Impossible Lawsuit': Families Find Few Options To Sue Long-Term Care Over COVID Deaths
August 19, 2021Suzanna Smith kneeling at the gravestone of her mother, Masae Hodges, at the Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Winchendon...
August 19, 2021Suzanna Smith kneeling at the gravestone of her mother, Masae Hodges, at the Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Winchendon. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)This article is more than 1 year old.Part one of two stories. Read part two here.Suzanna Smith's mother was supposed to spend a few weeks at a rehab facility in Fitchburg to recover from surgery, but she never came home.'She went in for back surgery, and she died from COVID. It's still so surreal to me,' Smith said. Her mother, Masae Hodges, was 73 when she died last year.