The pandemic has brought to light America’s flawed elder care system. Specifically, it has brought much scrutiny to the highly publicized circumstances in which long-term care residents have accounted for 2.1 million deaths. The elderly are only 0.62% of Americas population. Now that 75% of U.S. seniors have been vaccinated there is a much needed sense of relief. We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, with Covid-19 variants still spreading in other populations there is worry of mutation.